Self-experience of buried seeds at auricular points in depressive patients with sleep disorder: a qualitative research

Objective To explore the self-experience of burying seeds at auricular points in depressive patients with sleep disorder,so as to seek possible approaches to improve the quality of care.Methods Eleven patients involved in a three-week randomized controlled clinical trial were purposefully interviewed by the experienced,qualified counselor.The process of thematic analysis was applied in this study,the self-experience was discussed and recorded,transcribed,and analyzed accordingly.Results Four themes related to self-experience were extracted,these included the deficiency in relevant support,passive acceptance,distrust,expectation and further advice.Conclusion There was an urgent demand of humane care and emotional support,which might improve compliance of the treatment to some extent in terms of health education.Additionally,medical practitioners should provide the patient with comprehensive support,professional health education,as well as standardize training program for TCM operator and control the operation’s quality.

Objective To explore the self-experience of burying seeds at auricula points indepressive patients with sleep disorder, so as to seek possible approaches to improve the quality of care. Methods Eleven patients involved in a three-week randomized controlled clinical trial were purposefully interviewed by the experienced, qualified counselor. The procnalysis was applied in this study, the self-experience was discussed and recorded, analyzed accordingly. Results Four themes related to self-experience were extracted, these in-cluded the deficiency in relevant support, pasi-ve acceptance, distrust, expectation and vice. Conclusion There was an urgent demand of humane care and emotional support, whichmight improve compliance of the treatment to some extent in terms of health education. Addition-ally, medical practitioners should provide the patient with comprehensive support, professionalhealth education, as well as standadize training program for TCM operator and control thie opera-tion＇ s quality.