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Insomnia treatment
Could you please provide further reasoning as to the unreliability of the sources concerned with the clinical review of acupuncture and hypnotherapy in the treatment of insomnia, as well as further reasoning as to the low value of such reviews in comparison with the reviews of the other treatment approaches listed in Insomnia § Alternative medicine? Thanks. 77.126.7.100 (talk) 11:58, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
- Hello. The issue is treatment of insomnia, a medical topic requiring high-quality medical sources, as described in WP:MEDRS. All the sources below used in your edit are from alternative medicine practices not based in science.
- The European Journal of General Practice has a low impact factor of 1.6; Misplaced Pages medical content relies on high impact factor sources, typically well above 2.0
- Complementary Therapies in Medicine has an IF of 1.9
- hypnotherapy is quackery
The sources and quackery-based content do not meet the standards of an encyclopedia; see WP:MEDRS. --Zefr (talk) 14:32, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
References
- Ernst E, Lee MS, Choi TY (June 2011). "Acupuncture for insomnia? An overview of systematic reviews". The European Journal of General Practice. 17 (2): 116–23. doi:10.3109/13814788.2011.568475. PMID 21463162.
- Shergis JL, Ni X, Jackson ML, Zhang AL, Guo X, Li Y, Lu C, Xue CC (June 2016). "A systematic review of acupuncture for sleep quality in people with insomnia". Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 26: 11–20. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2016.02.007. PMID 27261976.
- Deirdre Barrett (1998). The pregnant man: tales from a hypnotherapist's couch. New York: Times Books. ISBN 9780812929058.
- Lam, Tak-Ho; Chung, Ka-Fai; Yeung, Wing-Fai; Yee-Man Yu, Branda; Yung, Kam-Ping; Ho-Yee Ng, Tommy (October 2015). "Hypnotherapy for insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials". Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 23 (5): 719–732. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2015.07.011. Retrieved October 2, 2019.