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Meta-analysis: 29 randomized controlled studies (RCT) assessing the efficacy of acupuncture treatments as complementary treatment in depression patients
Description
Meta-analysis of 29 studies on the effect of different methods of acupuncture Therapy for depression compared to usual care control groups by pooling data from RCTs.
Format
A dataframe with 29 rows and 11 columns. Each row represents study results, the columns are:
- author_year
Author and year.
- hedges_g
changes in severity between intervention and control groups calculated using Hedges´g statistic
- std_err
Standard Error of Hedges´g
- intervention
treatment administered
- comparison
control group treatment
- country
origin country of the study
- sample_size
total amount of patients per study
- number_treatments
number of treatments received per study
- variation_acupuncture_points
fixed: same acupuncture points used at each session; semi-fixed: some points pre-defined, some selected on the basis of the diagnosis/symptoms (location and amount); individualised: location and amount of points selected on basis of the diagnosis/symptoms
- number_acupuncture_points
amount of acupuncture points for fixed-points-studies
- NICMAN
NICMAN scale Points to evaluate the Quality of the administered acupuncture
- random_sequence_generation
Risk of selection bias (Random sequence generation) low risk of bias: high, high risk: low, unclear: unclear
- allocation_concealment
Risk of selection bias (allocation concealment) low risk of bias: high, high risk: low, unclear: unclear
- blinding_participants_personnel
Risk of performance bias (blinding of participants and personnel) low risk of bias: high, high risk: low, unclear: unclear
- blinding_outcome_assessment
Risk of detection bias (blinding oft outcome assessment) low risk of bias: high, high risk: low, unclear: unclear
- incomplete_outcome_data
Risk of attrition bias (incomplete outcome data) low risk of bias: high, high risk: low, unclear: unclear
- selective_reporting
Risk of reporting bias (selective reporting) low risk of bias: high, high risk: low, unclear: unclear
- other_bias
Risk of other biases; low risk of bias: high, high risk: low, unclear: unclear
Source
Armour M, Smith CA, Wang LQ, Naidoo D, Yang GY, MacPherson H, Lee MS, Hay P. Acupuncture for Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Clin Med. 2019 Jul 31;8(8):1140. doi: 10.3390/jcm8081140. PMID: 31370200; PMCID: PMC6722678.