Correction: Clinical efficacy and safety of acupuncture versus Western medicine for insomnia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Jun MaMeng PengXue-Jiao Xu^*

• Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China

Correction on: Ma J, Peng M and Xu X-J (2025) Clinical efficacy and safety of acupuncture versus Western medicine for insomnia: a systematic review and metaanalysis. Front. Neurol. 16:1589535. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1589535 In the published article, errors were present in Figures and their corresponding There was a mistake in the caption of figure2-6 as published. The order and correspondence between figure numbers and their captions were incorrect. The corrected caption of figure2-6 appears below. The correct correspondence is as follows:• Figure 2: Weekly meta-analysis and bias assessment of acupuncture treatment for patients with insomnia according to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).• Figure 3: Bias in inclusion of literature.• Figure 4: Efficient Meta Forest Map.• Figure 5: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score meta-analysis forest plot.• Figure 6: The funnel plot representing the publication bias analyses Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) for acupuncture treatment of 1, 2, 3, and 4 weeks. The original version of this article has been updated. Adding/removing text There were errors in the in-text citations of figures. Section 3.5.3 incorrectly cited Figure 2, while Section 3.5.4 correspondingly cited Figure 6 in error. A correction has been made to the section 3.5.3 and section 3.5.4: The correct correspondence is as follows: 3.5.3 Funnel plot and result analysisIn terms of publication bias, funnel plot analysis was performed on the studies included in the quantitative analysis according to PSQI scores, which were mainly concentrated in the middle and relatively symmetrical, suggesting that there was no large publication bias. All 25 studies used the overall response rate as a measure of efficacy after treatment, as shown in Figure 6. A comprehensive meta-analysis (Figure 2),based on PSQI scores across different treatment weeks confirmed that acupuncture is a significant treatment method for insomnia disorder (SMD: -1.25; 95% CI: -1.51 to -0.99; p < 0.00001; I2 = 89%; N = 2,514). The original version of this article has been updated.