Intervention effect of head acupuncture therapy combined with traditional music aesthetic education on children’s social anxiety disorders

Abstract

Background

Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is a highly prevalent anxiety disorder characterized by the excessive or irrational fear of particular external objects and situations. The study proposes to treat social anxiety disorders in children with the help of head acupuncture therapy. Considering the pathological features of anxiety disorders in children, a combined intervention with traditional music aesthetic education is also proposed.

Subjects and Methods

Children suffering from social anxiety disorder were taken as research subjects and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Both groups were treated with head acupuncture. The experimental group added a traditional music aesthetic education intervention to help the children relieve their anxiety through music and learning. The experimental intervention time was six weeks, and the experimental data were statistically analyzed with the help of the Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA) and Social Anxiety Scale for Children (SASC). The difference was statistically significant at P<0.05.

Results

After the experimental intervention, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference between the social anxiety scale scores of the two groups of children (P<0.05), with a significant effect of decreasing the scores of the SASC scale for children in the experimental group by more than 15%.

Conclusions

Aesthetic education is a combination of aesthetic and beauty teaching, and its combination with cephalic acupuncture therapy can better alleviate the symptoms of children’s social anxiety disorder and help and guide their cognitive behavior.