Shin Na Young, Lim Young Jin, Yang Chae Ha, Kim Cheongtag
Department of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan-si, Republic of Korea.
Department of Psychology, College of Social Sciences, Daegu University, Gyeongsan-si, Republic of Korea.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2017;2017:7823278. doi: 10.1155/2017/7823278. Epub 2017 Jan 12.
Empirical research has produced mixed results regarding the effects of acupuncture on the treatment of alcohol use disorder in humans. Few studies have provided a comprehensive review or a systematic overview of the magnitude of the treatment effect of acupuncture on alcoholism. This study investigated the effects of acupuncture on alcohol-related symptoms and behaviors in patients with this disorder. The PubMed database was searched until 23 August 2016, and reference lists from review studies were also reviewed. Seventeen studies were identified for a full-text inspection, and seven (243 patients) of these met our inclusion criteria. The outcomes assessed at the last posttreatment point and any available follow-up data were extracted from each of the studies. Our meta-analysis demonstrated that an acupuncture intervention had a stronger effect on reducing alcohol-related symptoms and behaviors than did the control intervention ( = 0.67). A beneficial but weak effect of acupuncture treatment was also found in the follow-up data ( = 0.29). Although our analysis showed a significant difference between acupuncture and the control intervention in patients with alcohol use disorder, this meta-analysis is limited by the small number of studies included. Thus, a larger cohort study is required to provide a firm conclusion.
关于针刺疗法对人类酒精使用障碍治疗效果的实证研究结果不一。很少有研究对针刺疗法治疗酒精中毒的治疗效果大小进行全面综述或系统概述。本研究调查了针刺疗法对患有该障碍患者的酒精相关症状及行为的影响。检索了截至2016年8月23日的PubMed数据库，并对综述研究的参考文献列表进行了审查。确定了17项研究进行全文检查，其中7项（243名患者）符合我们的纳入标准。从每项研究中提取最后治疗后时间点评估的结果以及任何可用的随访数据。我们的荟萃分析表明，针刺干预在减轻酒精相关症状和行为方面比对照干预效果更强（ = 0.67）。在随访数据中也发现针刺治疗有有益但较弱的效果（ = 0.29）。虽然我们的分析显示针刺疗法与酒精使用障碍患者的对照干预之间存在显著差异，但这项荟萃分析因纳入研究数量较少而受到限制。因此，需要进行更大规模的队列研究以得出确凿结论。
