References | Risk of bias domains (a) | ||||||||
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Key Criteria | Other Criteria | Tier (b) | |||||||
Randomization | Exposure characterization | Outcome assessment | Allocation concealment | Blinding | Attrition | Selective reporting | Other threats to internal validity | ||
Children and adolescents (c) | |||||||||
Al‐Shaar et al. 2013 ‐ Females | ++ | ++ | + | ++ | + | ++ | + | + | 1 |
Al‐Shaar et al. 2013 ‐ Males | ++ | NR | + | ++ | + | ++ | − | − | 2 |
El‐Hajj Fuleihan et al. 2006 ‐ Females | ++ | ++ | + | ++ | + | ++ | + | + | 1 |
El‐Hajj Fuleihan et al. 2006 – Males | ++ | NR | + | ++ | + | ++ | − − | − − | 2 |
General adult population | |||||||||
Burt et al. 2019 | ++ | + | ++ | ++ | + | ++ | ++ | + | 1 |
Grimnes et al. 2012 | ++ | + | ++ | ++ | + | ++ | ++ | + | 1 |
Jorde et al. 2010 | ++ | + | + | NR | + | – | ++ | + | 1 |
Rahme et al. 2017 | ++ | ++ | + | ++ | ++ | + | ++ | ++ | 1 |
Smith et al. 2018 | ++ | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | + | + | + | 1 |
Expert judgement was translated into a rating scale for each question to be answered as follows: (++): definitely low RoB; (+): probably low RoB; (NR): not reported; (−): probably high RoB; (−−): definitively high RoB.
The individual rating for each question was combined by an algorithm and translated to an overall tier of reliability for each individual study (RoB tier 1: low RoB; RoB tier 2: moderate RoB; RoB tier 3: high RoB).
All study groups were based on the same intervention study.