Clinical effects of a traditional Chinese medicine nursing programme to intervene in gastric pain of the spleen and stomach with Qi deficiency

Table 1 Comparison of care outcomes after care between groups, n (%)

Grouping	Number of examples	Visible effect	Effective	Invalid	Total efficiency
Control group	40	15 (37.50)	15 (37.50)	10 (25.00)	30 (75.00)
Experimental group	40	27 (67.50)	10 (25.00)	3 (7.50)	37 (92.50)
χ2	-	-	-	-	4.501
P	-	-	-	-	0.034

Table 2 Comparison of changes in traditional Chinese medicine symptom scores, visual analogue scale scores and Pittsburgh sleep quality index scores before and after care between groups (mean ± SD, points)

Grouping	Number of examples	Chinese Medicine symptom score		VAS score		PSQI score
		Before care	After care	Before care	After care	Before care	After care
Control group	40	19.82 ± 4.04	14.27 ± 2.67	6.81 ± 1.34	4.02 ± 1.20	17.15 ± 1.09	13.04 ± 1.10
Experimental group	40	19.88 ± 4.01	12.05 ± 2.25	6.77 ± 1.35	3.11 ± 1.18	17.09 ± 1.10	10.82 ± 1.07
t	-	0.067	4.021	0.133	3.420	0.245	9.149
P	-	0.947	0.000	0.894	0.001	0.807	0.000

VAS: Visual analogue scale; PSQI: Pittsburgh sleep quality index.