Effects of suggestion therapy on mood and sleep quality in middle-aged women with depression

Table 1 Changes in anxiety and depression scores before and after treatment in patients

Group	Case	SDS before treatment	SDS after treatment	t-test	P value	SAS before treatment	SAS after treatment	t-test	P value
Control group	51	72.33 ± 4.53	54.73 ± 3.07	24.162	0.000	60.24 ± 5.67	55.25 ± 3.16	6.038	0.000
Study group	51	73.59 ± 5.62	50.63 ± 2.56	26.325	0.000	61.53 ± 6.34	52.82 ± 2.89	8.838	0.000
t-test		1.241	7.316			1.086	4.054
P value		0.218	0.000			0.280	0.000

SDS: Self-Rating Depression Scale; SAS: Self-Rating Anxiety Scale.

Table 2 Changes in patients’ mood state before and after treatment

	Tension-anxiety	Depression-dejection	Fatigue-sluggishness	Disorient-confusion	Anger-hostility	Energy-vigor
Control group
Before treatment	16.35 ± 2.36	15.86 ± 2.15	14.67 ± 2.04	15.25 ± 2.14	15.98 ± 2.08	10.57 ± 1.58
After treatment	13.41 ± 2.35	12.84 ± 2.04	11.25 ± 2.47	12.16 ± 2.03	11.25 ± 2.16	14.12 ± 2.87
t-test	6.387	7.041	8.811	7.454	10.423	7.349
P value	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Experimental group
Before treatment	15.98 ± 2.34	16.08 ± 2.34	14.94 ± 2.43	15.08 ± 3.59	16.04 ± 2.16	10.25 ± 2.13
After treatment	10.35 ± 1.56	9.57 ± 1.76	10.67 ± 2.25	9.35 ± 1.57	9.06 ± 1.58	16.75 ± 3.04
t-test	14.428	18.413	10.084	12.108	16.786	11.851
P value	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
t-test1	0.800	0.484	0.619	0.301	0.140	0.844
P value1	0.425	0.629	0.538	0.764	0.889	0.401
t-test2	7.743	8.676	1.256	7.790	5.857	4.491
P value2	0.000	0.000	0.212	0.000	0.000	0.000

¹The results of comparison between the control group and the experimental group before treatment.

²The results of comparison between the control group and the experimental group after treatment.

Table 3 Changes in sleep quality before and after treatment in patients

	Sleep quality	Bedtime	Sleep duration	Sleep efficiency	Sleep disorder	Hypnotics	Daytime dysfunction	PSQI score
Control group
Before treatment	2.35 ± 0.56	1.63 ± 0.49	2.24 ± 0.43	2.08 ± 0.27	2.06 ± 0.54	1.25 ± 0.44	1.53 ± 0.58	13.04 ± 1.33
After treatment	1.35 ± 0.48	1.49 ± 0.50	1.45 ± 0.50	1.53 ± 0.50	1.67 ± 0.48	0.94 ± 0.24	0.84 ± 0.42	9.27 ± 1.15
t-test	9.903	1.414	9.177	5.954	3.732	4.781	6.934	16.000
P value	0.000	0.164	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Experimental group
Before treatment	2.41 ± 0.54	1.63 ± 0.56	2.31 ± 0.51	2.12 ± 0.33	2.04 ± 0.34	1.35 ± 0.48	1.61 ± 0.49	13.47 ± 1.39
After treatment	1.12 ± 0.33	1.14 ± 0.35	1.33 ± 0.48	0.96 ± 0.34	1.22 ± 0.42	0.73 ± 0.45	0.92 ± 0.48	7.41 ± 1.20
t-test	15.157	4.976	8.621	19.755	12.310	7.099	7.229	25.967
P value	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
t-test1	0.542	0.000	0.841	0.661	0.217	1.072	0.737	1.603
P value1	0.589	1.000	0.402	0.510	0.828	0.286	0.463	0.112
t-test2	2.887	4.112	1.214	6.653	5.097	3.023	0.876	7.993
P value2	0.005	0.000	0.228	0.000	0.000	0.003	0.383	0.000

¹The results of comparison between the control group and the experimental group before treatment.

²The results of comparison between the control group and the experimental group after treatment, respectively.

PSQI: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.