Table 5.
GRADE quality assessment.
| Outcome | Author, year | Type of bariatric surgery | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Publication bias | Large effect | Dose-response gradient | All plausible confounding | Quality of evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General mental health | Gadd, N.2020 | IGB | -1 | -1 | 0 | -1 | NR | 0 | 0 | 0 | Very low |
| Alcohol use disorders | Azam, 2018 | All types | -1 | NR | 0 | -1 | NR | 0 | 0 | 0 | Very low |
| Alcohol use disorders | Azam, 2018 | All types | -1 | NR | 0 | 0 | NR | 0 | 0 | 0 | Very low |
| Alcohol use disorders | Azam, 2018 | All types | -1 | NR | 0 | -1 | NR | 0 | 0 | 0 | Very low |
| Anxiety symptoms | Loh, 2021 | All types | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Depressive symptoms | Loh, 2021 | All types | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Minimal depression | Alyahya, R. A.2022 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Moderate depression | Alyahya, R. A.2022 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Mild depression | Alyahya, R. A.2022 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Severe depression | Alyahya, R. A.2022 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Depression symptoms | Alyahya, R. A.2022 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Depression symptoms | Woods, R.2023 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Depression symptoms | Woods, R.2023 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Depression symptoms | Woods, R.2023 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Depression symptoms | Fu, R.2022 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Moderate |
| Suicide mortality | Lim, R. B. C.2018 | All types | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Moderate |
| Suicide | Castaneda, 2019 | All types | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | High |
| Self-harm | Castaneda, 2019 | All types | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low | |
| Eating disorders | Taba, J. V.2021 | All types | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low |
| Binge-eating disorder | Taba, J. V.2021 | All types | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Low |
NR mean not reported.