Complementary therapies for clinical depression: an overview of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

As clinical practice guidelines vary widely in their search strategies and recommendations of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for depression, this overview aimed at systematically summarising the level 1 evidence on CAM for patients with a clinical diagnosis of depression.

Methods

PubMed, PsycInfo and Central were searched for meta-analyses of randomised controlled clinical trials (RCTs) until 30 June 2018. Outcomes included depression severity, response, remission, relapse and adverse events. The quality of evidence was assessed according to Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) considering the methodological quality of the RCTs and meta-analyses, inconsistency, indirectness, imprecision of the evidence and the pot

SUBMITTER: Haller H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686993 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature