Effect of midnight-noon ebb-flow of acu-point application on anxiety and quality of life in patients with knee osteoarthritis

Objective To explore the effect of midnight-noon ebb-flow of acu-point application on anxiety and quality of life in patients with knee osteoarthritis.Methods 60 patients were randomly divided into the experimental group and the control group,30 patients in each.The control group used the affected area acu-point patch and the experimental group used flowing acu-point patch.Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS),SF-36 health survey scale were adopted to evaluate the patients' anxiety and the quality of life.Results SAS score after the intervention of the experimental group was significantly lower than that of the control group.The eight dimensions of SF-36 scores after the intervention in the experimental group were higher than those of the control group,the difference was statistically significant.Conclusions Midnightnoon ebb-flow of acu-point application can effectively reduce KOA patients' anxiety,improve their quality of life,and the effect is better than affected area applicator. Key words: Knee osteoarthritis;  Anxiety;  Quality of life;  Acu-point application;  Midnight-noon ebb-flow