Table 3.
St. Mary's Hospital Sleep Questionnaire (SMH) scores before and after intervention.
| Intervention period (days) | APP∗ group N, mean (SD) |
Control group N, mean (SD) |
Z | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment starting at the beginning of the disease and isolation period (days of treatment ≤ 7) | Day 0 | 15, 16.2 (7.2) | 3, 16.7 (2.5) | −0.420 | 0.738 |
| Discharge | 14, 23.1 (7.4) | 3, 19.0 (1.0) | −2.278 | 0.023 | |
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| Treatment starting one week after the diagnosis and isolation (days of treatment > 7 ≤ 14) | Day 0 | 13, 16.4 (2.9) | 2, 19.5 (0.7) | −1.720 | 0.085 |
| Discharge | 13, 25.8 (5.2) | 2, 17.5 (3.5) | −1.877 | 0.061 | |
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| Disease and treatment lasting >14 days | Day 0 | 38, 17.5 (3.8) | 13, 17.2 (2.5) | −0.544 | 0.587 |
| Discharge | 37, 25.1 (6.1) | 13, 21.6 (5.1) | −2.198 | 0.028 | |
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| Total | Day 0 | 66, 17.0 (4.6) | 18, 17.4 (2.4) | −0.071 | 0.943 |
| Discharge | 64, 24.8 (6.2) | 18, 20.7 (4.6) | −3.313 | 0.001 | |
∗APP: auricular point pressure.