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. 2023 Aug 22;14:1145705. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1145705

Table 2.

Risk of bias assessment.

Studies Randomisation process Deviations from the intended interventions Missing outcome data Measurement of the outcome Selection of the reported result Overall risk-of-bias judgement
Cain et al. (2022) Inline graphic
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Ghoshchi et al. (2020) graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i007.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i008.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i009.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i010.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i011.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i012.jpg
Mead et al. (2022) graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i013.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i014.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i015.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i016.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i017.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i018.jpg
Ntsiea et al. (2015) graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i019.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i020.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i021.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i022.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i023.jpg graphic file with name fneur-14-1145705-i024.jpg
Radford et al. (2020) Inline graphic
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Key: Inline graphic Low risk of bias; Inline graphic Some concerns of bias; Inline graphic High risk of bias.

For papers which were sub-studies, the original papers were retrieved and reviewed to evaluate the risk of bias.

# Information was obtained from the original study protocol paper (23).

^ Information was obtained from the original study protocol papers (24, 25).