Traditional Chinese medicine for post-stroke depression: A systematic review and network meta-analysis (Protocol).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Post-stroke depression (PSD) is common in stroke survivors, with significantly negative effects and serious impairments in terms of personal and social functioning. While both pharmacological and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) interventions have been administered for PSD, there is still uncertainty about the balance between these and what treatment strategy should be preferred in clinical practice. Therefore, we aim to compare and rank, describing the protocol of a systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA), the commonly used TCM interventions for PSD.

Methods and analysis

We will search CENTRAL (the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials), CINAHL, Embase, PubMed, CBM and PsycINFO, the US National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organi

SUBMITTER: Huang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6314659 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature