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Tuina (massage) therapy for diarrhea in COVID-19: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: In the beginning of December 2019, the novel coronavirus pneumonia was first detected in Wuhan, China. Its widespread infectivity and strong pathogenicity has posed a great threat to public health, seriously affecting social production and life. Accumulating evidence suggests that gastro...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Ke-Lin, Dong, Shuo, Fu, Guo-Bing, Cui, Shu-Sheng, Guo, Sheng
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7360276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32664185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000021293
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author Zhou, Ke-Lin
Dong, Shuo
Fu, Guo-Bing
Cui, Shu-Sheng
Guo, Sheng
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Dong, Shuo
Fu, Guo-Bing
Cui, Shu-Sheng
Guo, Sheng
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description BACKGROUND: In the beginning of December 2019, the novel coronavirus pneumonia was first detected in Wuhan, China. Its widespread infectivity and strong pathogenicity has posed a great threat to public health, seriously affecting social production and life. Accumulating evidence suggests that gastrointestinal symptoms, such as diarrhea, are common among patients with COVID-19. Tuina (massage) therapy is 1 of the widely employed complementary and alternative medicine interventions in the world. It can act on the subcutaneous muscular layer, enhance the local blood circulation and tissue metabolism of the skin, thus exert its effects on digestive systems and alleviate aversive diarrhea symptoms. This systematic review and meta-analysis will summarize the current evidence of tuina (massage) used as an intervention for diarrhea symptoms in COVID-19. METHODS: We will search the following electronic databases for randomized controlled trials to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of massage therapy in treating exercise-induced fatigue: China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang and Pubmed Database, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Excerpta Medica database and MEDLINE. Each database will be searched from inception to June 2020. The entire process will include study selection, data extraction, risk of bias assessment and meta-analyses. RESULTS: This proposed study will evaluate the effectiveness and safety of massage therapy for diarrhea symptoms in COVID-19 patients. The outcomes will include the improvement of diarrhea symptoms and adverse effect. CONCLUSIONS: This proposed systematic review will evaluate the existing evidence on the effectiveness and safety of massage therapy for diarrhea symptoms in COVID-19 patients. Dissemination and ethics: The results of this review will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publication. Because all of the data used in this systematic review and meta-analysis has been published, this review does not require ethical approval. Furthermore, all data will be analyzed anonymously during the review process.
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spelling pubmed-73602762020-08-05 Tuina (massage) therapy for diarrhea in COVID-19: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis Zhou, Ke-Lin Dong, Shuo Fu, Guo-Bing Cui, Shu-Sheng Guo, Sheng Medicine (Baltimore) 3800 BACKGROUND: In the beginning of December 2019, the novel coronavirus pneumonia was first detected in Wuhan, China. Its widespread infectivity and strong pathogenicity has posed a great threat to public health, seriously affecting social production and life. Accumulating evidence suggests that gastrointestinal symptoms, such as diarrhea, are common among patients with COVID-19. Tuina (massage) therapy is 1 of the widely employed complementary and alternative medicine interventions in the world. It can act on the subcutaneous muscular layer, enhance the local blood circulation and tissue metabolism of the skin, thus exert its effects on digestive systems and alleviate aversive diarrhea symptoms. This systematic review and meta-analysis will summarize the current evidence of tuina (massage) used as an intervention for diarrhea symptoms in COVID-19. METHODS: We will search the following electronic databases for randomized controlled trials to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of massage therapy in treating exercise-induced fatigue: China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang and Pubmed Database, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Excerpta Medica database and MEDLINE. Each database will be searched from inception to June 2020. The entire process will include study selection, data extraction, risk of bias assessment and meta-analyses. RESULTS: This proposed study will evaluate the effectiveness and safety of massage therapy for diarrhea symptoms in COVID-19 patients. The outcomes will include the improvement of diarrhea symptoms and adverse effect. CONCLUSIONS: This proposed systematic review will evaluate the existing evidence on the effectiveness and safety of massage therapy for diarrhea symptoms in COVID-19 patients. Dissemination and ethics: The results of this review will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publication. Because all of the data used in this systematic review and meta-analysis has been published, this review does not require ethical approval. Furthermore, all data will be analyzed anonymously during the review process. Wolters Kluwer Health 2020-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7360276/ /pubmed/32664185 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000021293 Text en Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections.
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Tuina (massage) therapy for diarrhea in COVID-19: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
title Tuina (massage) therapy for diarrhea in COVID-19: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
title_full Tuina (massage) therapy for diarrhea in COVID-19: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
title_fullStr Tuina (massage) therapy for diarrhea in COVID-19: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
title_full_unstemmed Tuina (massage) therapy for diarrhea in COVID-19: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
title_short Tuina (massage) therapy for diarrhea in COVID-19: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
title_sort tuina (massage) therapy for diarrhea in covid-19: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7360276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32664185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000021293
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