Health Condition 1: G470- Insomnia
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Individualised Homoeopathic medicine: All the patient?s symptoms and written information
will be recorded in standard proforma that are used
in NIH Kolkata. All the cases will be repert
Sponsors
National Institute of Homoeopathy
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1.Women aged 45-60 years experiencing natural menopause, from all religion and socioeconomic background. 2. Insomnia accompanied by menopausal symptoms like hot flashes, night sweat, mood disturbance or hormonal imbalance. 3. Patients suffering from chronic insomnia for more than three months. 4. patients with ability to read write / understand Hindi or English or Bengali. 5. Patients who are willing to participate in the study and giving informed written consent.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1.Women with insomnia causes by underlying medical condition such as thyroid disorder, other serious chronic illness. 2.Patients on hormone replace therapy or other conventional medication superficially for insomnia. 3. Women with a history of severe psychiatric disorder such as major depression or bipolar disorder. 4.Patients not willing to take part in the study and not ready to give the written consent for the same. 5.Women undergoing induced menopause due to surgery.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The Womens Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale (WHIIRS).The scale requires individuals to rate the quality of their sleep and the frequency with which they experience certain sleep problems, providing a total score that may be useful for both research and clinical purposes.A Brief 5 item scale evaluating insomnia symptoms.Response options range from 0 to 4, resulting in a possible total score of 20, with a score greater than 9 indicating clinically significant Insomnia.Timepoint: at the baseline and 6 month | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| MENOPAUSAL RATING SCALE: The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) is a health-related quality of life scale (HRQoL) it was developed in response to the lack of standardized scales to measure the severity of aging-symptoms and their impact on the HRQoL in the early 1990s. The MRS consists of a list of 11 items (symptoms or complaints). Each of the 11 symptoms contained in the scale can get 0 (no complaints) or up to 4 scoring points (severe symptoms) depending on the severity of the complaints perceived by the women completing the scaleTimepoint: at the baseline and 6 month | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactDr Ompriya Mishra
National Institute of Homoeopathy
Outcome results
None listed