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Abstract
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Aim. To explore the effective intervention of health education based on combination of TCM and western medicine in recurrence and rehabilitation of depression.
METHODS. Fifty-six patients with depression (study group) were intervened by health education on a basis of combination of TCM and western medicine theory in hospital, including everyday examination psychotherapy, individual psychotherapy and education for patients family, and out of hospital after recovery for three years, including return visit every 1 month within half a year, every 3 months with 0.5 - 1.5 years and every 6 months within 1.5 - 3.0 years, and then compared with 42 depression patients (control group) without health education.
RESULTS. The recurrence rate (X2 = 18.971), compliance of drug (X2 = 19.717) and SDSS scores (t = 5.724) showed significant differences between the study group and control group respectively (P < 0.01). The suicide rate of study group was 3.57%, greatly lower than that of control group (16.67%) (X2 = 4.929, P < 0.05).
CONCLUSION. The health education based on the combination of TCM and western medicine plays an important role in intervening recurrence of depression and completing the rehabilitation of depression.
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