Therapeutic Effect of Magnesium Supplementation in Improving Quality of Life among Elderly Insomniac Participants

作者：Amna Liaqat, Bahisht Rizwan, Ayesha Amjad, Z. Rasool · 发表于：Pakistan Journal of Health Sciences · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.54393/pjhs.v4i09.995 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Magnesium in Health and Disease、Therapeutic Uses of Natural Elements、Methodologies in Health Research and Practice

Insomnia is increasing day by day, according to global prevalence it ranges from10%to40%with trouble falling asleep, remaining asleep, or having non-restorative sleep that is accompanied by daytime impairment or distress. Magnesium seems to play a key role in there gelation of sleep. Objective: To compare the therapeutic effect of magnesium supplementation in improving quality of life among elderly insomniac participants with control and treatment group. Methods: The study design was double blind randomized clinical trial. Purposive sampling technique was used to allocate gender elderly people. Data were collected from Al-Saida Shuhda old age home, Lahore and the participants were divided into two groups, 40 participants in each group. Group 0 (control group) were given regular diet without magnesium supplement for 8 weeks. Group 1 (treatment group were given Magnesium supplements (500mg) for 8 weeks. Data were tabulated and analyzed with the help of SPSS 25.0. Results: The results shown that the magnesium supplementation had highly significant results in improving LSEQ, serum magnesium, serum melatonin, serum cortisol and serum renin level without showing any side effects. Group 0 has shown 0.152 (GTS), 0.088(QOS), 0.168(AFS), 0.195(BFW), 0.292(serum Mg), 0.567(serum melatonin), 0.276(serum cortisol), 0.101(serum renin) whereas group 1 has shown 0.01(GTS), 0.01(QOS), 0.003(AFS) and 0.03(BFW), 0.02(serum Mg), 0.01(serum melatonin), 0.02(serum cortisol), 0.02(serum renin), res...