Acupuncture in the Treatment of a Female Patient Suffering from Chronic Schizophrenia and Sleep Disorders

Table 1

Psychological assessmentresults for our patient with chronic schizophrenia on the PANSS, PSQI, BDI, digit span, and letter-number sequencing tests before and after acupuncture treatment and at follow-up.

Test	Before acupuncture	After acupuncture	At follow-up
PANSS positive	7	7	7
PANSS negative	7	7	7
PANSS psychopathology	38	30	33
PANSS total	52	44	47
PSQI total	9	3	10
PSQI subjective sleep quality	1	0	3
PSQI sleep latency	3	1	2
PSQI sleep time	0	1	0
PSQI sleep efficiency	0	0	3
PSQI sleep disorders	2	1	1
PSQI sleep medication	3	0	0
PSQI daytime sleepiness	0	0	1
PSQI subjective time to fall asleep in minutes	60	30	4.5
PSQI subjective sleep duration in hours	10–12	6.5	7
Digit span	7	10	10
Letter-number sequencing	2	6	7