Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation over acupoints for patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: Protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:At present, drug therapy for diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) has made great progress; however, it does not often produce a satisfying curative effect. Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation over acupoints (Acu-TENS) might be more effective in improving patient's symptoms and producing fewer side-effects as a result.Although with a great progress of the drug therapy for IBS-D, it is often hard to achieve its satisfactory curative effect. Acu-TENS that may be effective to improve patients' symptoms and fewer side-effects will be sought. There is no systematic review concerning the efficacy of Acu-TENS for IBS-D published. Therefore, this review aims to systematically evaluate the efficacy of Acu-TENS on IBS-D. METHODS:Four English (PubMed, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library, Web of Science) and 4 Chinese electronic databases (Biomedical Literature Database, CNKI, VIP, Wanfang Database) will be searched from their inception to November 26, 2018. Randomized controlled trials that evaluated the effect of Acu-TENS on patients with IBS-D will be included. The primary outcome measures will include average weekly stool frequency, visual analog scale (VAS), and the Bristol scale. The secondary outcome measures will include the MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36), IBS Quality of Life Questionnaire (IBS-QOL), severity of IBS symptoms (IBS-SSS), and rectal perception. Quality evaluation and data extraction will be independently undertaken, respectively. The data from the eligible trials will be analyzed by RevMan5.3. RESULTS:For patients with IBS-D, this systematic review will provide evidences related to the efficacy of Acu-TENS in these evaluation aspects, stool frequency, VAS and the Bristol scale, SF-36, IBS-QOL, IBS-SSS, and rectal perception. CONCLUSION:This evidence may be useful to medical workers with regard to the use of Acu-TENS in the treatment of IBS-D.PROSPERO registration number: PROSPERO CRD442018109294.

journal_name

Medicine (Baltimore)

journal_title

Medicine

authors

Han BY,Shao QF,Cong Y,Guo S,Mao XY,Wei RH,Wei W

doi

10.1097/MD.0000000000013267

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-12-01 00:00:00

pages

e13267

issue

51

eissn

0025-7974

issn

1536-5964

pii

00005792-201812210-00009

journal_volume

97

pub_type

杂志文章,meta分析

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