Efficacy of Western Medicine, Chinese Patent Medicine and Their Combination on Post-stroke Insomnia: a Network Meta-analysis

• Published in: Zhongguo quanke yixue Vol. 26; no. 30; pp. 3823 - 3832
• Main Author: ZHU Lin, GUO Yankui, GAO Chen, CHEN Xuezhi, WANG Fashuai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: Chinese General Practice Publishing House Co., Ltd 01-10-2023
• Subjects: sleep initiation and maintenance disorders|post-stroke insomnia|chinese patent medicine|western medicine|combined treatment|network meta-analysis
• ISSN: 1007-9572
• DOI: 10.12114/j.issn.1007-9572.2023.0209

Background Post-stroke insomnia is one of the most common post-stroke complications, which seriously damages the quality of life and delays the process of rehabilitation. Clinical studies have shown that Western medicine alone, Chinese patent medicine alone and the combination of both are effective in the treatment of post-stroke insomnia. However, at present, there is still no network Meta-analysis to compare the efficacy of the three treatments. Objective To evaluate the efficacy of Western medicine alone, Chinese patent medicine alone and their combination in treating post-stroke insomnia by network Meta-analysis. Methods Chinese databases such as CNKI, CBM, Wanfang Data, VIP and English databases such as PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library were researched by computer for randomized controlled trials involving Western medicine alone, Chinese patent medicine alone and the combination of both from inception to December 2022. Two researchers independently performed the evaluation of the risk of bias and quali