Application of eight trigrams boxing in the management of tumor-related negative emotion
DAI Hui-ru
LIU Min-ling
LI Ting-wei
GUO Chun-yan
LI Chun-nan
FANG Shuo
Abstract：Objective To explore the effects of eight trigrams boxing on negative emotion in tumor patients including sleep,anxiety and depression.Methods A total of 36 patients with malignant tumors who met the inclusion criteria were randomly divided into the Control Group and the Experimental Group,18 cases in each group.The Control Group received conventional psychological education while the Experimental Group received 8-week intervention with eight trigrams boxing intervention on the basis of the education for the Control Group.The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI),Self-Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS),Self-rating depression scale(SDS),adverse effects were recorded before and after the intervention.Results After psychological education and eight trigrams boxing intervention,the scores of SAS and SDS in the Experimental Group were lower than those in the Control Group and preintervention(P＜0.05 or 0.01).The PSQI score in the Experimental Group was slightly lower than that in the Control Group,but the difference was not statistically significant(P＞0.05).There were no adverse reactions and complications in the two groups.Conclusion Eight trigrams boxing has certain efficacy in improving the sleep,anxiety,depression and other negative emotion in tumor patients with good safety.
Keywords：physical medicine integrationeight trigrams boxingtumornegative emotionmanagement
Publication Date：2023-12-28
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 642-645 )