Acupuncture treatment on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Xing L, Ren Z, Yue X, Chen H, Xia C, Liu F, Dong Q, Wu K, Zhao R · Medicine · 2021 August 27

Objective

To systematically evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Conclusions

The study aims to conduct a systematic search in various databases, including PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Excerpt Medica Database, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, VIP, Wanfang database, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure database. The evaluation will focus on parameters such as effective rate, total score of traditional Chinese medicine syndromes, Conners Child Hyperactivity-Diagnosis Rating Scale, Conners Index of Hyperactivity, recurrence rate, and adverse events. The results will be analyzed using the Cochrane Collaboration tool and Jadad scale to assess the quality of the studies, and a meta-analysis will be conducted using Review Manager Version 5.3.

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