PMID- 35499150
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220908
LR  - 20220919
IS  - 1552-3799 (Electronic)
IS  - 1054-7738 (Print)
IS  - 1054-7738 (Linking)
VI  - 31
IP  - 7
DP  - 2022 Sep
TI  - Efficacy and Safety of Acupuncture and or Moxibustion for Managing Primary 
      Dysmenorrhea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
PG  - 1362-1375
LID - 10.1177/10547738221086984 [doi]
AB  - Acupuncture and moxibustion have been accepted as add-on options for primary 
      dysmenorrhea (PD); however, the clinical evidence is still inadequate. We 
      searched AMED, CENTRAL, EMBASE, PubMed, Web of Science, CBM, CNKI, VIP, Wangfang 
      database, ANZCTR, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the WHO ICTRP, from their inception to 
      February 2021. The pooled analysis of 13 RCTs with 675 participants for VAS 
      showed that acupuncture and moxibustion were more effective in managing PD than 
      the control group with the MD of -1.93 (95% CI [-2.80, -1.06] and -2.67 (95% CI 
      [-4.96, -0.38]). With the CMSS, seven studies with 487 participants showed that 
      these modalities were more effective than the control group with the MD of -7.58 
      (95% CI [-10.97, -4.19]) and -3.78 (95% CI [-6.90, -0.66]). The findings 
      indicated that acupuncture and moxibustion could relieve pain effectively and has 
      fewer adverse events (AEs) in managing PD.
FAU - Liu, Weiting
AU  - Liu W
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6936-8872
AD  - Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia.
FAU - Wang, Carol Chunfeng
AU  - Wang CC
AD  - Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia.
FAU - Lee, Khui Hung
AU  - Lee KH
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5906-4664
AD  - Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia.
FAU - Ma, Xiaopeng
AU  - Ma X
AD  - Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, China.
FAU - Kang, Timothy Leen
AU  - Kang TL
AD  - Institute of Chinese Acuology, Perth, WA, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Meta-Analysis
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Systematic Review
DEP - 20220502
PL  - United States
TA  - Clin Nurs Res
JT  - Clinical nursing research
JID - 9208508
MH  - *Acupuncture Therapy/adverse effects
MH  - Dysmenorrhea/etiology/therapy
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Moxibustion/adverse effects
PMC - PMC9449440
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - acupuncture
OT  - moxibustion
OT  - nursing
OT  - primary dysmenorrhea
OT  - review
COIS- Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential 
      conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or 
      publication of this article.
EDAT- 2022/05/03 06:00
MHDA- 2022/09/09 06:00
PMCR- 2022/09/07
CRDT- 2022/05/02 07:24
PHST- 2022/05/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/09/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/05/02 07:24 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/09/07 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1177_10547738221086984 [pii]
AID - 10.1177/10547738221086984 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Clin Nurs Res. 2022 Sep;31(7):1362-1375. doi: 10.1177/10547738221086984. Epub 
      2022 May 2.