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SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2019

The Neurophysiological and Psychological Mechanisms of Qigong as a Treatment for Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Wendy Wing Yan So, Shuhe Cai, Suk Yu Yau, Hector Wing Hong Tsang

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Synthesis in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Qigong in the care of breast cancer survivors with diabetes.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2024
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  13. A Content Analysis of African Americans' Experience of Engaging inJournal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2024
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  15. Yoga and Qigong for Health: Two Sides of the Same Coin?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Wendy Wing Yan SoDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Shuhe CaiDepartment of Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, Affiliated Rehabilitation Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China.
Suk Yu YauDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Hector Wing Hong TsangDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University · HKFujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

anti-depressivecomplementary and alternative medicinedepressionneurophysiological mechanismqigong

Identifiers

PMID31824346
PMCPMC6880657
OpenAlexW2988360327

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