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Beneficial effects of auricular acupressure on preventing constipation in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: evidence from systematic review and meta-analysis Cover

Beneficial effects of auricular acupressure on preventing constipation in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: evidence from systematic review and meta-analysis

Frontiers of Nursing
Volume 5 (2018): Issue 3 (September 2018)
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|Oct 2018
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Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Flowchart of the trial selection process.

Figure 2

Risk of bias summary: reviewers' judgments about each risk of bias item for each included study.

Figure 3

Risk of bias graph: reviewers' judgments about each risk of bias item presented as percentages across all included studies.

Figure 4

Routine care vs routine care plus AA on response rate.AA, auricular acupressure.

Summary of the RCTs of AA for treating constipation in BC patients undergoing chemotherapy_

StudySample sizeIntervention (regimen) groupControl (regimen) groupMain outcomesAcupuncture pointsAEs
Shin and Park1752(A) AA (one session = 20 minutes, three times/day, total 20 days, n = 26), plus (B)(B) Routine care, n = 26CAS PAC-QOLRectum, large intestine, lung, and San JiaoMild pain, mild discomfort
Wang et al1860(A) AA (one session = 25 minutes, three times/day, total 18 days, n = 30), plus (B)(B) Routine care, n = 30Response rateRectum, large intestine, lung, San Jiao, and subcortexn.r
Xu et al1990(A) AA (one session = 30 minutes, three times/day, total 18 days, n = 45), plus (B)(B) Routine care, n = 45Response rateRectum, large intestine, lung, San Jiao, and subcortexn.r
Feng et al20120(A) AA (one session = 30 minutes, three times/day, total 20 days, n = 60), plus (B)(B) Routine care, n = 60Response rateRectum, large intestine, lung, San Jiao, and subcortexn.r
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fon-2018-0030 | Journal eISSN: 2544-8994 | Journal ISSN: 2097-5368
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Language: English
Page range: 227 - 234
Submitted on: Nov 30, 2017
Accepted on: Feb 2, 2018
Published on: Oct 25, 2018
Published by: Shanxi Medical Periodical Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
auricular acupressure therapy,
constipation,
chemotherapy,
breast cancer,
systematic review,
meta-analysis
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Assistive professions, nursing

© 2018 Su-Hua Zheng, Min Yan, Tiffany Field, Xiao Xu, published by Shanxi Medical Periodical Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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