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Authors, reference no., year | Country | Stroke status | Trails (simple size) | Treatment intervention | Control intervention | Quality assessment tool | Overall conclusion |
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Li et al. [14], 2017 | China | Poststroke limb dysfunction | 31 (2349) | TCM exercise nursing; TCM exercise nursing + rehabilitation nursing | Rehabilitation nursing | Cochrane criteria | Current evidence showed that TCM exercise nursing produced positive effects on limb motor function, balance function, activity of daily living ability and neurological impairment among stroke patients. More large-scale, high-quality, multiple center RCTs are required to further verify above conclusions in the future. |
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Wang et al. [15], 2020 | China | Poststroke dysphagia | 10 (930) | Acupoint massage + rehabilitation nursing | Rehabilitation nursing | Cochrane criteria | According to the current literatures, acupoint massage could improve swallowing function in patients with post‐stroke dysphagia. |
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Yue and Li [16], 2019 | China | Poststroke depression | 5 (458) | TCM emotional nursing | Psychological nursing | Cochrane criteria | Routine nursing combined with TCM emotional nursing for patients with poststroke depression can effectively improve depressive symptoms. |
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Li et al. [17], 2019 | China | Poststroke constipation | 10 (1083) | TCM nursing + routine nursing | Routine nursing | Cochrane criteria | The effect of TCM nursing for poststroke constipation is better than that of the control group. However, due to fewer studies included in the analysis and the overall quality being low, more large samples and high-quality clinical research are needed to further confirm the efficacy of TCM nursing on stroke patients with constipation. |
Wu [18], 2018 | China | Poststroke shoulder-hand syndrome | 6 (508) | TCM soaking + rehabilitation nursing | Rehabilitation nursing | Cochrane criteria | Present evidences showed that alternating TCM soaking combined with rehabilitation nursing on shoulder hand syndrome after stroke can improve the effective rate of treatment, upper limb motor function, and daily living ability of patients. But it needs to be verified by more high-quality studies |
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Wu et al. [19], 2018 | China | Poststroke dysphagia | 14 (1182) | Acupoint massage + rehabilitation nursing | Rehabilitation nursing | Cochrane criteria | The current evidence indicates that acupoint massage combined with rehabilitation nursing is beneficial to poststroke dysphagia. But more high-quality studies are needed to verify the above conclusion. |
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Wang et al. [20], 2017 | China | Poststroke constipation | 7 (579) | Auricular plaster + routine nursing | Routine nursing | Cochrane criteria | Auricular plaster is more effective than routine nursing in the treatment of poststroke constipation, and auricular plaster may reduce the occurrence of side effects of Western medicine. |
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Yuan and Wang [21], 2016 | China | Stroke sequelae | 14 (1453) | TCM nursing + routine nursing | Routine nursing | Cochrane criteria | TCM nursing has the effects of improving the therapeutic effect, relieving pain, improving depressive symptoms, improving self-care ability, and restoring motor function in patients with stroke sequelae. |
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Zhang and Liu [22], 2016 | China | Stroke sequelae | 8 (898) | TCM nursing + routine nursing | Routine nursing | Cochrane criteria | TCM nursing has a good effect on the rehabilitation of stroke patients. More large-scale, high-quality, multiple center RCTs are required to further verify above conclusions in the future. |
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Liang et al. [23], 2015 | China | Poststroke depression | 7 (664) | TCM emotional nursing + routine nursing | Routine nursing | Cochrane criteria | TCM emotional nursing can improve the depressive symptoms of patients with poststroke depression. |
Peng et al. [24], 2015 | China | Stroke sequelae | 8 (663) | TCM nursing | Routine nursing | Jadad | TCM nursing may be superior to routine nursing for stroke patients. More large-scale, high-quality, multiple center RCTs are required to further verify above conclusions in the future. |
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