Pengaruh Terapi Akupunktur dan Meditasi pada Wanita Kelebihan Berat Badan dan Obesitas: Studi Kasus

Autor:	Lenny Dwinijanti, Harliansyah, Willie Japaries
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Waist business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Traditional Chinese medicine Overweight medicine.disease Obesity Confidence interval Physical therapy Acupuncture Medicine Meditation medicine.symptom business Body mass index media_common
Zdroj:	Indonesian Scholar Journal of Medical and Health Science. 1:44-49
ISSN:	2807-7539 2807-7547
Popis:	Introduction: Overweight and obesity not only affect an individual’s health physically but also psychologically. So, it is imperative for a clinician to take care both aspects of the individuals. Methods: This study is to report the effects of acupuncture and meditation therapy on the slimming indices of the overweight and obese women visiting our aesthetic clinic. They were voluntarily segregated into two groups, ie. one group consisted of women who selected acupuncture therapy (AT) only, the other group consisted of women who selected acupuncture and meditation therapy (AMT). Both groups’ body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) were measured at the first visit and after eight and sixteen sessions of therapy, respectively. The differences between pre-therapy and post-therapy indices and between AT and AMT groups were analysed using two tailed t-test at 95% confidence interval (alpha at 0.05). Results: Subjects were seventeen women with overweight and obesity visiting aesthetic clinic for slimming treatment. Ten women chose AT and seven women chose AMT. After eight and sixteenth sessions of therapy, both AT and AMT groups show very significant reduction in the BMI and WC (P
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