ArticleAcupuncture and herbal medicine2022
Traditional Chinese medicine for promoting mental health of patients with COVID-19: a scoping review.
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- Sex- and gender-specific differences in treatment efficacy and safety of traditional Chinese medicine: a scoping review.Frontiers in global women's health · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of different Chinese traditional exercises on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Microbiota basis of antidepressant effects of Zhi-zi-chi Decoction:Chinese herbal medicines · 2025Article
- Evaluating the agreement between sensitivity and primary analyses in observational studies using routinely collected healthcare data: a meta-epidemiology study.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Patient-Focused Drug Development and Real World Study.Integrative medicine research · 2025Review
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Abstract
This study aimed to systematically review and depict the current studies of traditional Chinese medicine for the mental health of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Methods: A scoping review was conducted by searching PubMed, Web of Science, CNKI, Wanfang database, VIP database, and SinoMed, with the retrieval time being from the establishment of the database to April 18, 2022. The basic information of the included studies, objective, design, types of patients, interventions, outcomes, etc., was reviewed and summarized narratively. Methodological quality was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias assessment tool, the methodological index for non-randomized studies or the Newcastle-Ottawa scale. Results: We identified 30 traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) studies from six databases. Among them, finished randomized controlled trials ( Conclusion: We summarized the existing literature about the impact of TCM on mental health in patients with COVID-19. The number of studies evaluating the impact of TCM on mental health is encouraging, but overall methodological quality was low. Several TCM interventions warrant further evaluation, particularly among populations outside of China, for the purpose of establishing supporting evidence. More importantly, research with stronger methodological quality needs to be developed. Graphical abstract: http://links.lww.com/AHM/A36.
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