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A Review on Reporting Quality of Acupuncture Intervention for Visceral Pain: Assessment with STRICTA

내장 통증에 사용된 침 중재 분석 및 보고의 질 평가

  • Lee, In-Seon (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health) ;
  • Cheon, Soyeon (Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University) ;
  • Park, Ji-Yeun (College of Korean Medicine, Daejeon University)
  • 이인선 (미국국립보건원 국립보완통합의학센터) ;
  • 전소연 (대만 국립성공대학교 의과대학 보건대학원) ;
  • 박지연 (대전대학교 한의과대학)
  • Received : 2019.02.18
  • Accepted : 2019.03.11
  • Published : 2019.03.27
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Abstract

Objectives : The purpose of this study is to review which acupoints and meridians are selected to treat visceral pain in articles published in international journals and to investigate quality of reporting acupuncture intervention according to the STRICTA guidelines. Methods : Electrical and hand search were conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE, and Cochrane Library for acupuncture studies on visceral pain in human and animals. Reporting quality of intervention was evaluated using the revised STRICTA guidelines. Results : We included 51 articles (7 clinical studies and 44 animal studies) in this study. The most frequently adopted meridians and acupoints were Stomach meridian, Spleen meridian, Conception Vessel meridian, and ST36, CV4, SP6, LI4, PC6, SP9, ST25, ST37 in clinical studies. In animal studies, Stomach meridian, Conception Vessel meridian, Pericardium meridian and ST36, ST37, CV12, PC6 were most frequently used. Animal studies showed significantly lower quality of reporting compared to clinical studies. According to the analysis on the effect of year of publication of articles, announcement of STRICTA guidelines did not improve the quality of reporting for studies on visceral pain. Conclusions : These results suggest that both proximal and distal acupoints based on meridian theory were used to study the underlying mechanisms of visceral pain both in human and animal studies. Guidelines of acupuncture intervention reporting for animal study is necessary to improve the quality of evidence, and it will also allow us the integrative understanding of the mechanisms and clinical effects of acupuncture treatment in human and animal.

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