Traditional Chinese Medicine Techniques Impact on the Quality of Life of the Older People | Chapter 12 | Current Progress in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 7

 The focus concerning this study was to decide the potential influence of traditional Chinese cure (TCM) practices on the quality of existence (QOL) of the elderly. Elders endure be interviewed as journalists on the value of their own lives. Two non-selected sign up groups of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) municipality tenants were studied: a control group (36 earlier adults) the one did empty TCM and a group participating in an experiment (28 earlier people) that acted use TCM at the ABACO/Sohaku-in Institute in Brazil. The WHOQOL-Old questionnaire, grown by the World Health Organization, was working, as were descriptive mathematical approaches to a degree mean and standard deviation. The Shapiro-Wilk test was used to guarantee that the distribution was usual. Furthermore, for the intergroup comparison, the Student t test was used to facets 2, 4, 5, 6, and total score, and the Mann-Whitney U rank test was applied to surfaces 1 and 3, both tests engaged to examine the P profit difference middle from two points experimental and control groups. The standard of significance secondhand was 95% (P >0.05). The experimental group had defeater in competition overall and individual QOL scores. It was persistent that TCM might boost the QOL of the elderly. The overall end of this study, that reports a greater QOL for the traditional who sustain TCM treatment, is advantageous for the adoption of TCM processes in the West, at least with the senior population.

Author(s) Details:

Helena Andrade Figueira,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Olivia Andrade Figueira,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Joana Andrade Figueira,
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil.

Alan Andrade Figueira,
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil.

Estelio Henrique Martin Dantas,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Delson Lustosa Figueiredo,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ronaldo Vivone Varejão,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Adonay Pimentel Aleluia Freitas Júnior,
Universidade Evangélica de Goiás, Brazil.

 

Jymmys Lopes dos Santos,
Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil.
 
Cilene Oliveira Feu Galiasso,
Universidade Estadual de Roraima, Brazil.
 
Carlos Antônio Feu Galiasso,
Universidade Estadual de Roraima, Brazil.
 
João Victor da Costa Alecrim,
Universidade Estadual de Roraima, Brazil.

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