Table 2.

Adverse events reported in studies included in the meta-analysis.

References	Adverse effects in the intervention group	Adverse reactions in the control group	Withdrawal due to adverse reactions caused by rTMS
Solé-Padullés et al. (2006)	NR	NR	0
Turriziani et al. (2012)	NR	NR	0
Han et al. (2013)	4 transient headache or dizziness	3 transient headache or dizziness	0
Yang et al. (2014)	2 slight dizziness or scalp pain	1 slight dizziness or scalp pain	0
Drumond Marra et al. (2015)	10 headache, 9 scalp pain	5 headache, 1 neck pain, 2 scalp pain, 1 burning scalp	0
Koch et al. (2018)	NR	NR	0
Padala et al. (2018)	14 treatment site discomfort	2 neck discomfort	1 severe pain
Wen et al. (2018)	3 mild headaches	0	0
Long et al. (2018)	1 mild dizziness	0	0
Cui et al. (2019)	0	0	0
Deng et al. (2019)	0	0	0
Yuan et al. (2021)	3 mild headaches at the beginning of treatment.	0	0

NR, not reported in the article.