Assessment of Meta-Analysis: Systematic Review on Acupuncture Therapy for Post Stroke Depression (PSD)

A large number of studies have been conducted on the treatment of post stroke depression with acupuncture. the purpose of this study was to review the published review literature about the efficacy of acupuncture for treating depression in stroke survivors. electronic databases (pubmed/medline (national library of medicine), central (the cochrane library), google scholar, science direct, and china academic journals full-text database (cnki)), have been used for terms “meta-analysis”, “systematic review acupuncture” or “electro acupuncture” and post stroke depression”. out of 2302 studies, 2 systematic reviews covering 2525 participants were selected for analysis. the review articles included in this study were methodologically high qualified (oqaq score ≥ 7 and amstar score ≥ 9) denoting acupuncture can treat the post-stroke depression in comparison to an antidepressant with fewer side effects. acupuncture may benefit the patients who are suffering from post-stroke depression but for a strong recommendation of clinical usage more high-quality studies needed.