Overview on effectiveness of Qigong and Tai chi: a protocol for systematic review
Creators: name: Cheon, Chunhoo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Alternative and Complementary Medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Overview
subject: Qigong
subject: study protocol
subject: Systematic review
subject: Tai Chi
subject: traditional medicine

description: 1. Review title. Overview on Effectiveness of Qigong and Taichi: a protocol for systematic review 2. Anticipated or actual start date. (Give the date when the systematic review commenced, or is expected to commence.) 24/08/2020 3. Anticipated completion date. (Give the date by which the review is expected to be completed.) 31/05/2021 4. Stage of review at time of this submission. Preliminary searches: Completed Piloting of the study selection process: Completed Formal screening of search results against eligibility criteria: Completed Data extraction: Started Risk of bias (quality) assessment: Started Data analysis: Started Provide any other relevant information about the stage of the review here (e.g. Funded proposal, protocol not yet finalised). 5. Named contact. (The named contact acts as the guarantor for the accuracy of the information presented in the register record.) Chunhoo Cheon Email salutation (e.g. "Dr Smith" or "Joanne") for correspondence: Dr Cheon 6. Named contact email. (Give the electronic mail address of the named contact.) hreedom@khu.ac.kr 7. Named contact address (PLEASE NOTE this information will be published in the PROSPERO record so please do not enter private information. Give the full postal address for the named contact.) Department of Preventive medicine, Korean medicine College, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea 8. Named contact phone number. (Give the telephone number for the named contact, including international dialling code.) +822-961-2382 9. * Organisational affiliation of the review. (Full title of the organisational affiliations for this review and website address if available. This field may be completed as 'None' if the review is not affiliated to any organisation.) Kyung Hee University http://kmc.khu.ac.kr/eng/ 10. Review team members and their organisational affiliations. (Give the personal details and the organisational affiliations of each member of the review team. Affiliation refers to groups or organisations to which review team members belong. NOTE: email and country are now mandatory fields for each person.) Dr Chunhoo Cheon. Kyung Hee University Miss Su Hyeon Lee. Kyung Hee University Miss Yerim Jeon. Kyung Hee University Professor Seong-gyu Ko. Kyung Hee University 11. * Funding sources/sponsors. (Give details of the individuals, organizations, groups or other legal entities who take responsibility for initiating, managing, sponsoring and/or financing the review. Include any unique identification numbers assigned to the review by the individuals or bodies listed.) This work was supported by an undergraduate research program (URP) grant from Kyung Hee University College of Korean Medicine. 12. * Conflicts of interest. (List any conditions that could lead to actual or perceived undue influence on judgements concerning the main topic investigated in the review.) None 13. Collaborators. (Give the name and affiliation of any individuals or organisations who are working on the review but who are not listed as review team members. NOTE: email and country are now mandatory fields for each person.) None 14. Review question. (State the question(s) to be addressed by the review, clearly and precisely. Review questions may be specific or broad. It may be appropriate to break very broad questions down into a series of related more specific questions. Questions may be framed or refined using PI(E)COS where relevant.) 1. Do Qigong and Tai chi have an effect on various health conditions? 2. For which diseases were Qigong and Tai Chi studies conducted? 15. Searches. (State the sources that will be searched. Give the search dates, and any restrictions (e.g. language or publication period). The following electronic databases will be searched: PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Korean databases and Chinese databases. The search terms will be the MeSH terms of 'qigong', 'taichi', and 'systematic review'. 16. Condition or domain being studied. (Give a short description of the disease, condition or healthcare domain being studied. This could include health and wellbeing outcomes.) Any type of health conditions 17. * Participants/population. (Give summary criteria for the participants or populations being studied by the review. The preferred format includes details of both inclusion and exclusion criteria.) People who have performed Qigong or Tai chi for the purpose of improving health 18. Intervention(s), exposure(s). (Give full and clear descriptions or definitions of the nature of the interventions or the exposures to be reviewed.) Qigong or Taichi 19. Comparator(s)/control. (Where relevant, give details of the alternatives against which the main subject/topic of the review will be compared (e.g. another intervention or a non-exposed control group). The preferred format includes details of both inclusion and exclusion criteria.) No specific restriction 20. * Types of study to be included. (Give details of the types of study (study designs) eligible for inclusion in the review. If there are no restrictions on the types of study design eligible for inclusion, or certain study types are excluded, this should be stated. The preferred format includes details of both inclusion and exclusion criteria.) Systematic review 21. Main outcome(s). (Give the pre-specified main (most important) outcomes of the review, including details of how the outcome is defined and measured and when these measurement are made, if these are part of the review inclusion criteria.) All health-related outcomes observed after performing Qigong or Taichi * Measures of effect (Please specify the effect measure(s) for you main outcome(s) e.g. relative risks, odds ratios, risk difference, and/or 'number needed to treat.) Not specific 22. Additional outcome(s). (List the pre-specified additional outcomes of the review, with a similar level of detail to that required for main outcomes. Where there are no additional outcomes please state ‘None’ or ‘Not applicable’ as appropriate to the review) For what diseases qigong or Taichi applies. * Measures of effect (Please specify the effect measure(s) for you additional outcome(s) e.g. relative risks, odds ratios, risk difference, and/or 'number needed to treat.) Not applicable 23. Data extraction (selection and coding). (Describe how studies will be selected for inclusion. State what data will be extracted or obtained. State how this will be done and recorded.) Two independent researchers will review all articles and extract the data using a standard data extraction form. Any disagreement between the authors will be resolved by discussion or third party arbitration. 24. * Risk of bias (quality) assessment. (Describe the method of assessing risk of bias or quality assessment. State which characteristics of the studies will be assessed and any formal risk of bias tools that will be used.) AMSTAR (A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews) will be used to assess risk of bias. Two researchers will assess the AMSTAR independently. 25. Strategy for data synthesis. (Provide details of the planned synthesis including a rationale for the methods selected. This must not be generic text but should be specific to your review and describe how the proposed analysis will be applied to your data.) The data will be narratively synthesized. 26. Analysis of subgroups or subsets. (State any planned investigation of ‘subgroups’. Be clear and specific about which type of study or participant will be included in each group or covariate investigated. State the planned analytic approach.) Subgroup analysis will be conducted according to the disease and the type of qigong. 27. Type and method of review. (Select the type of review and the review method from the lists below. Select the health area(s) of interest for your review.) Type of review- Intervention, Narrative synthesis, Review of reviews, Systematic review Health area of the review-Complementary therapies 28. Language. English 29. Country. South Korea 30. Dissemination plans. (Give brief details of plans for communicating essential messages from the review to the appropriate audiences. Do you intend to publish the review on completion?) Yes 31. Current review status. (Review status should be updated when the review is completed and when it is published. For new registrations the review must be Ongoing.) Ongoing