Mind-body practices for cancer-related symptoms management: an overview of systematic reviews including one hundred twenty-nine meta-analyses

Ref ID 851
First Author M.J. Casuso-Holgado
Journal SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER
Year Of Publishing 2022
URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00520-022-07426-3
Keywords Protocols
Complimentary & Alternative
Oncology
Pre-specification
Disclosure
Low reporting quality
Problem(s) Lack of prespecification in eligibility criteria
Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided
Conflicts of interest or funding of included studies not assessed
No registered or published protocol
Number of systematic reviews included 38
Summary of Findings From 38 systematic reviews of mind-body practices indexed across CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, PubMed, and the Cochrane Library up to March 2022. Across all studies, the items of AMSTAR 2 were scarcely performed. Mainly, few of the included systematic reviews reported information regarding the review protocol (n = 6/38, 15.8%); the reasons to choose a specific research design (n = 3/38, 7.9%); the provision of a list of excluded studies and justification for their exclusion (n = 4/38, 10.5%); and the sources of funding for the clinical trials included in the review (n = 1/38, 2.6%).
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? Not Applicable
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? Yes