Table 4.
Feasibility of intervention, dropouts, and adherence rate throughout intervention.
| Study | Feasibility (participants/people meeting inclusion criteria) | Dropouts, n (%) | Adherence rate (total sessions completed [%]) |
| Atef et al [37] | 36/51 | 6 (16.7) | NRa |
| Basha et al [40] | 60/112 | 2 (6.7) | NR |
| Benzing et al [33] | 70/310 | 6 (8.6) | 47.6% reached the desired 20 sessions |
| da Silva Alves et al [41], da Silva Alves [42], and da Silva Alves [43] | 36/105 | 10 (18.2) | NR |
| Feyzioğlu et al [38] | 40/67 | 4 (10.0) | NR |
| de Oliveira et al [44] and de Oliveira et al [45] | 38/51 | 18/38 (47.4) | NR |
| Hamari et al [34] | 36/47 | 1 (2.8) | 50% the first week |
| Hoffman et al [48] and Hoffman et al [49] | 7/10 | 0 (0) | First 6-week period: mean 96.6% (SD 3.4%, range 90%-100%); second 10-week period: mean 87.6% (SD 12.2%, range 59%-100%) |
| Nani et al [35] | NR | 0 (0) | NR |
| Sajid et al [50] | 19/31 | Week 6 = 0 (0); week 12 = 6 (31.5) | NR |
| Schumacher et al [46] | 42/49 | 11 (26.2) | NR |
| Tsuda et al [47] | NR | 7/16 (43.8) | 62% |
| Villumsen et al [51] | NR | 5/46 (10.9) | NR |
| Wang et al [52] | 10/85 | 2 (20) | First 3-week period: 75%; second 3-week period: 100% |
| Wang et al [53] | 10/60 | 6 (60) | 100% |
| Czech et al [39] | NR | 0 (0) | NR |
| Tanriverdi et al [36] | NR | 0 (0) | 83.3% |
aNR: not reported.