ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2021
An Association Rule Analysis of the Acupressure Effect on Sleep Quality.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Lifestyle intervention to improve sleep quality in Chinese college students: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Acupressure on Sleep Quality Among Inpatients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nursing & health sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Acupuncture for adult lung cancer of patient-reported outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
- Development and internal validation of a nomogram for sleep quality among Chinese medical students: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Anatomical Exploration of the KI1 Acupoint: Implications for Medial and Lateral Plantar Nerve Stimulation.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- An Improved Apriori Association Rule for the Identification of Acupoints Combination in Treating COVID-19 Patients.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSleep is recognized as an all-important physiological process, which also contributes to maintaining several bodily functions and systems. According to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), also known as the most widely used tool in the field of subjective assessment of self-perceived sleep quality, a combination of acupoints could be more effective than single acupoint treatment in improving sleep quality.
methodsThe present study was based on the extracted eligible studies rooted in a previous meta-analysis that worked on the basis of association rule mining and examined the potential kernel acupoint combinations for improving sleep quality.
resultsDepending on the Apriori algorithm, we summarized 26 acupoints as binary data from the 32 eligible studies based on a previous meta-analysis and analyzed them. The top 10 most frequently selected acupoints were HT7, SP6, PC6, KI1, GV20, EM5, EX-HN3, EX-HN16, KI3, and MA-TF1. Furthermore, as deduced from 21 association rules, the primary relevant rules in the combination of acupoints are (EX-HN3, EX-HN16)=>(GV20) and (HT7, KI1)=>(PC6).
conclusionsIn order to use acupuncture to improve sleep quality, integrating (EX-HN3, EX-HN16, GV20) with (HT7, KI1, PC6) acupoints could be deemed as the kernel acupoint combination.
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