Table 2.
GRADE summary of comparing the acupuncture group with different nonacupuncture groups.
| Outcomes | Anticipated absolute effects∗ (95% CI) | Relative effect (95% CI) | № of participants (studies) |
Certainty of the evidence (GRADE) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assumed risk: nonacupuncture | Corresponding risk: acupuncture | ||||
| Weekly defecation | The mean weekly defecation in the control groups was -5.2 | The mean weekly defecation in the intervention groups was 0.29 lower (0.49 lower to 0.08 lower) | — | 471 (2 RCTs) | ⨁⨁⨁◯ MODERATE |
| Bristol stool form | The mean Bristol stool form in the control groups was -4.16 | The mean Bristol stool form in the intervention groups was 0.28 lower (0.68 lower to 0.12 higher) | — | 100 (2 RCTs) | ⨁⨁◯◯ LOW |
| Total symptom score | The mean total symptom score in the control groups was -4.1 | The mean total symptom score in the intervention groups was 1.17 lower (1.42 lower to 0.93 lower) | — | 303 (5 RCTs) | ⨁⨁⨁◯ MODERATE |
| IBS-QOL | The mean IBS-QOL in the control groups was 71.15 | The mean IBS-QOL in the intervention groups was 2.37 higher (1.94 higher to 2.80 higher) | — | 143 (2 RCTs) | ⨁⨁◯◯ LOW |
| IBS-SSS | The mean IBS-SSS in the control groups was -95.7 | The mean IBS-SSS in the intervention groups was 0.75 lower (1.04 lower to 0.47 lower) | — | 319 (5 RCTs) | ⨁⨁⨁◯ MODERATE |