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KMID : 0387420100210020017
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Korean Society of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
2010 Volume.21 No. 2 p.17 ~ p.28
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Changes of quality of life and subjective stress after the oriental medicine treatment, among the patinets who had visited hospital due to traffic acciden
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Han Chang
Park Jong-Hoon
Lee Jin-Hyuk
Min Kwan-Sik
Han Kyung-Wan
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Abstract
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Objectives : This study is to evaluate the quality of life and amount of stress after the treatment among the patients who visited hospital due to traffic accident.
Methods : We evaluated 40 patients who have been treated by western medicine for 3 months but showed no improvements. We surveyed VNRS, SF-36 and IES-R-K scores before treatment began and treated patients twice a week for 4 weeks with acupuncture, chuna theraphy, herbal medicine. After 4 weeks of treatment, we surveyed VNRS, SF-36 and IES-R-K scores again and compared with the scores of before treatment.
Results : VNRS score and SF-36 scale and IES-R-K scale showed significant improvement after the treatment, compared to the treatment before.
Conclusions : The amount of pain and stress, physical condition, all showed improvement among the patients who came to Oriental medicine hospital due to traffic accident.
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KEYWORD
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Quality of life, Subjective stress, Pain score, Traffic accident, SF-36, IES-R-K
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