Clinical study on aromatherapy combined with physical exercise in treating insomnia symptoms of adolescent depression

Abstract

Background

Depression is a mental disorder caused by many factors. Aromatherapy of traditional Chinese medicine delivers aromatic drugs to the human body to effectively prevent and treat diseases. In addition, appropriate sports can also improve the depressive symptoms of adolescents. Therefore, the study will combine traditional Chinese medicine aromatherapy with sports to intervene and treat adolescents to improve their symptoms.

Subjects and Methods

In this study, 72 patients with insomnia symptoms of adolescent depression in a hospital were taken as the research object and randomly divided into groups A and B, with 36 patients in each group. Group A was given traditional methods, while group B was intervened with the combination of traditional Chinese medicine aromatherapy and sports. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to quantify the score of insomnia symptoms in adolescents with depression. SPSS25.0 statistical software was used for the statistical analysis of relevant data. The results are shown in Table 1.Table 1.

PSQI score results of two groups of patients before and after the intervention

		Sleep quality	Sleep time	Sleep duration	Sleep efficiency	Sleep disorders	Daytime function	Total score
Before intervention	A	2.10±0.53	2.90±1.05	1.83±0.94	1.87±1.06	1.10±.039	2.47±0.67	12.27±1.95
	B	2.00±0.44	2.50±0.76	1.80±0.83	2.07±1.10	1.17±0.37	2.57±0.61	12.10±1.77
After intervention	A	1.97±0.40	2.87±0.33	1.60±0.55	2.13±0.76	1.00±0.25	2.43±0.71	12.00±1.95
	B	1.76±0.50	1.45±0.72	1.14±0.86	1.35±0.94	0.72±0.44	2.38±0.48	8.78±1.67

Results

After the intervention, the total score of component B decreased from 12.10 ± 1.77 to 8.78 ± 1.67. To sum up, there is a big difference between group B and group A before and after the intervention, indicating that the combination of traditional Chinese medicine aromatherapy and sports has obvious advantages, which can effectively alleviate the symptoms of insomnia in young people.

Conclusions

Depression is easy to cause insomnia in young people, so the combination of traditional Chinese medicine aromatherapy and sports was used in the study. The results showed that the combined treatment was significant for the treatment of insomnia in adolescent depression patients.