Comparative efficacy and acceptability of non-surgical brain stimulation for the acute treatment of major depressive episodes in adults: systematic review and network meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the comparative clinical efficacy and acceptability of non-surgical brain stimulation for the acute treatment of major depressive episodes in adults.

Design

Systematic review with pairwise and network meta-analysis.

Data sources

Electronic search of Embase, PubMed/Medline, and PsycINFO up to 8 May 2018, supplemented by manual searches of bibliographies of several reviews (published between 2009 and 2018) and included trials.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

Clinical trials with random allocation to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (repetitive (rTMS), accelerated, priming, deep, and synchronised), theta burst stimulation, magnetic seizure therapy, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), or

SUBMITTER: Mutz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6435996 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature