ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2022
Efficacy and Safety of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Poststroke Insomnia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Twenty-Six Randomized Controlled Trials.
Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation for post-stroke sleep disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of acupuncture on sleep quality for post-stroke insomnia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Traditional Chinese medicine therapies for insomnia: An umbrella review and evidence map.Integrative medicine research · 2025Review
- Comparative Efficacy of Various Acupuncture-Related Therapies for Post-Stroke Sleep Disorders: A Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
- Deciphering Post-Stroke Sleep Disorders: Unveiling Neurological Mechanisms in the Realm of Brain Science.Brain sciences · 2024Review
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- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocol to Establish How Common Clinical Acupoint Stimulation-Related Therapies Should Be Used for Managing Insomnia.Journal of pain research · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in the treatment of poststroke insomnia. Methods: PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Embase, Web of Science, China Biology Medicine (CBM), CNKI, VIP, and Wanfang databases were searched by computer from their inception to April 29, 2021, for collecting all randomized controlled trials of acupuncture in the treatment of poststroke insomnia. After two reviewers independently screened the literature, extracted the data, and evaluated the risk of bias in the included studies, the data were analyzed by RevMan 5.3 and STATA 16.0. The quality of outcomes was evaluated by the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE). Results: A total of 26 studies with 1874 cases were included, which had 942 cases in the treatment group and 932 cases in the control group. Meta-analysis results showed that, compared with oral medications alone, acupuncture alone or acupuncture combined with oral medications could improve the clinical effective rate and the sleep quality of patients, and the combined effects were RR = 1.21; 95% CI: 1.15, 1.27; Conclusion: Acupuncture alone or acupuncture combined with oral drugs is more effective and safer than oral drugs alone in the treatment of poststroke insomnia, which is suitable to promote in clinical practice.
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Registered trials
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