Table 4.

Results for influence analysis for primary and secondary outcomes (data reported as standardized effect size).

Excluded study	Pooled g	LCI 95%	HCI 95%	Q	p	I2	I2 LCI 95%	I2 HCI 95%
Primary outcome (Caregiver distress)
Applebaum et al, 2017	-0.29	-0.92	0.34	123.91	0.00	92.74	88.70	95.33
Abdullahzadeh et al, 2021	-0.16	-0.53	0.20	47.23	0.00	80.94	65.94	89.34
Aubin et al, 2021	-0.30	-0.97	0.36	124.04	0.00	92.74	88.71	95.34
Belgacem et al, 2013	-0.22	-0.85	0.41	122.25	0.00	92.64	88.52	95.28
Chen et al, 2020	-0.21	-0.82	0.40	117.37	0.00	92.33	87.98	95.11
Ferrell et al, 2019	-0.38	-1.02	0.26	116.27	0.00	92.26	87.85	95.07
Heckal et al, 2018	-0.35	-1.01	0.31	119.49	0.00	92.47	88.22	95.18
Pensak et al, 2013	-0.27	-0.91	0.36	125.79	0.00	92.84	88.89	95.39
Mosher et al, 2019	-0.25	-0.87	0.38	125.48	0.00	92.83	88.86	95.38
Mosher et al, 2018	-0.29	-0.92	0.33	123.09	0.00	92.69	88.61	95.31
Nejad et al, 2016	-0.19	-0.77	0.39	109.20	0.00	91.76	86.96	94.79
Secondary outcome (Anxiety)
Applebaum et al, 2017	-0.15	-0.75	0.44	15.66	0.00	80.85	49.79	92.69
Abdullahzadeh et al, 2021	0.06	-0.18	0.31	1.86	0.60	0.00	0.00	75.25
Aubin et al, 2021	-0.18	-0.80	0.44	15.47	0.00	80.60	49.00	92.62
Mosher et al, 2019	-0.16	-0.75	0.42	15.45	0.00	80.58	48.95	92.62
Mosher et al, 2018	-0.23	-0.73	0.27	11.59	0.01	74.11	27.67	90.73
Secondary outcome (Depression)
Applebaum et al, 2017	-0.03	-0.22	0.16	0.80	0.94	0	0	0.00
Heckal et al, 2018	-0.04	-0.26	0.18	0.91	0.92	0	0	8.55
Abdullahzadeh et al, 2021	-0.02	-0.21	0.17	0.43	0.98	0	0	0.00
Mosher et al, 2019	-0.06	-0.24	0.13	0.78	0.94	0	0	0.00
Mosher et al, 2018	-0.04	-0.23	0.14	0.91	0.92	0	0	8.80
Aubin et al, 2021	-0.07	-0.28	0.13	0.56	0.97	0	0	0.00

Notes: g, Hedges g; * Statistically significant (alpha value ≤0.05 and non-overlapping confidence interval.