The Study of the Relationship of Insomnia in the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine at Local Clinic

Insomnia is one of the most main diseases of civilization in the world, which chronic insomnia is up to 30% in Taiwan under the latest statistics and a common disease which appears to sleep difficultly, sleep interrupted, wake up early or wake up still tired. Long-term persistence of these symptoms will lead to the occurrence of mental illness and then affect people's emotional behavior and cognitive memory, showing that insomnia is an important modern health issues. Recently, "individual response patterns" was proposed by modern medicine. This thinking process and spirit seems to be compatible with the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy of "Differential Treatment". The purpose of this study, the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), commonly used to quickly screen for insomnia patients and the evaluation of Western medicine efficacy in Western medicine clinic, and investigation of Syndrome Type of TCM to find out whether with Syndrome Type of TCM and AIS in the associated factors, and confirm the necessity and importance of Syndrome Type of TCM, for future reference and basis for the development of integrated medicine. In the cross-section study with an interview on survey, sampling Miaoli County an Chinese medicine clinic, in line with standard sampling of 200 patients with insomnia were recruited. The questionnaires contained two instruments including Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), and Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire. Cross-table, chi-square test, variance analysis and Pearson product-moment correlation was used to find the relation.