電氣睡眠療法의 臨床

A Clinical Study of Electro-sleep Therapy

The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical effects of eletcrosleep therapy. Electro- sleep apparatus, Som lec Solo, was used in treating 32 insomniac patients at the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kyungpook National University Hospital, during one year from Octlober 1980 to October 1981. The results were as folows； Out of 32 insomniac patients, 23 patients(72%) showed symptomim provem ent during or after electrosleep therapy sessions. Sex and age made little difference in the effects of the treatment. The effect of the electro-sleep therapy was greater in the neurotic group than the psychotic group. In fact, there was little effect in the psychotic group. In improved subjetcs, anxiety and depression scores were significantly decreased followingelectro- sleep therapy and anxiety score decreased in greater degree than depression scores. MMPI test showed no significant differences between the improved subjects and the non-improved subjects in validity and clinical scales, except for the Active Hostility Index，which was significantly higher in the non-improved group. Degree of symptom aticim provement was proportionate to the number of treatment sessions in the improved subjects Im proved symptoms in order of the improvement rate were as follow s； release of tension (87. 5% ), sleeping during the treatment session (71. 9 % ), increase of sleeping time in the night (50. 0 % ), stop or reduction of drug dosage (18. 8 % ), improvement o f epigastric discom fort (16.0% ), increase o f appetite (12.5% ), decrease of obsessive rumination (12. 5% ), decrease o f anxiety (12. 5%) and finally decrease o f depressive mood (9. 496) .