Pain Research and Management

Review Article

An Overview of Systematic Reviews of Randomized Controlled Trials on Acupuncture Treating Migraine

Table 1

Basic information of included studies.


Study ID	Participant	Acute or preventive treatment	Intervention	Control	Outcome measures	Design	Trials (participants)	Risk of bias assessment tool

Linde et al. [14]	Migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture	①②③	At least one clinical outcome related to headache	RCT	26 (1151)	Risk of bias approach for Cochrane reviews
Linde et al. [7]	Episodic migraine patients	Preventive treatment	Acupuncture with or without manual or electrical stimulation	①②③	Headache frequency, response, and quality of life	RCT	22 (4985)	α
Chen et al. [15]	Migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture	③	Ⓑ	RCT	18 (1730)	β
Chen [16]	Migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture	Acupuncture not according to meridians;①②③ and other treatments	Ⓑ	RCT	18 (1672)	α
Chu et al. [17]	Migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture	②③	NR	RCT	24 (2397)	α
Cui et al. [18]	Migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture with or without electrical stimulation	②③ and other treatments.	Ⓐ	RCT	15 (1288)	α
Dai and Lin [19]	Migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture	NR	NR	RCT	2 (140)	β
Gao et al. [20]	NR	NR	Acupuncture	②	Ⓑ	RCT	12 (1744)	β
Yang et al. [21]	Migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture	②	At least one clinical outcome related to headache	RCT	10 (997)	α
Zheng and Hai [22]	Migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture	NR	NR	RCT	33 (3593)	α
Zhao [23]	Menstrual migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture with or without other treatments	②③ and other treatments.	ⒶⒷⒸ, pain index, pain time, symptom score, and biochemical indexes.	RCT	18 (1268)	α
Pu [24]	Migraine patients	Preventive treatment	Acupuncture	③	ⒶⒷⒸ, migraine days, migraine frequency, times of analgesics used, and follow-up rate.	RCT	7 (1285)	α
Pu et al. [25]	Migraine patients	Acute treatment	Acupuncture	②	Ⓐ	RCT	5 (618)	α
Song et al. [26]	Migraine patients	Preventive treatment	Acupuncture with or without electrical stimulation or placebo	③ with or without placebo	Ⓑ, pain days, and other outcome.	RCT	18 (1470)	α
Yang et al. [27]	Migraine patients	NR	Acupuncture	③	ⒷⒸ; pain index	RCT	10 (893)	α

NR: not reported in inclusion criteria; ①: no acupuncture; ②: sham acupuncture; ③: drug treatment; Ⓐ: visual analogue scale (VAS) pain score; Ⓑ: efficacy: Ⓒ: adverse events; α: Cochrane risk of bias assessment tool [28]; β: Jadad scale [29].