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. 2023 Apr 25;25(1):795–812. doi: 10.1177/15248380231163641

Table 3.

Quality Assessment of Review Articles (QuADS tool).

Abraham et al. (2018) Acar et al. (2021) Acquaye et al. (2018) Acquaye (2017) Alsubaie et al. (2021) Cengiz et al. (2019) Dolezal et al. (2021) Ersahin (2020) Ferriss and Forrest-Bank (2018)
1. Theoretical underpinning to research 1 3 1 2 2 2 2 3 3
2. Statement of research aims 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 2
3. Description of setting/population 2 3 3 1 1 3 1 3 1
4. Appropriate study design 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 2 3
5. Appropriate sampling 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 3
6. Rationale for choice of measures 2 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 3
7. Appropriateness & description of measures 1 3 3 3 2 3 2 3 2
8. Description of data collection 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 2
9. Recruitment data provided 1 0 2 2 3 0 3 3 1
10. Justification of analytic method 2 0 3 2 0 1 1 0 1
11. Appropriate analysis 2 3 2 2 1 1 2 2 3
12. Consideration of stakeholders in design 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
13. Strengths and limitations discussed 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 0 2
Total 20 26 28 23 18 19 20 25 29
Hijazi et al. (2014) Hirad (2017) Matos et al. (2021) Maung et al. (2021) McCormack and Strezov (2021) Özdemir et al. (2021) Paloma et al. (2019) Prasetya et al. (2020) Rizkalla and Segal (2018)
1. Theoretical underpinning to research 2 3 2 3 2 2 2 1 2
2. Statement of research aims 1 3 3 3 2 3 1 1 3
3. Description of setting/population 3 2 3 3 2 1 3 2 3
4. Appropriate study design 3 2 3 2 3 1 3 1 3
5. Appropriate sampling 3 3 1 1 1 0 1 1 3
6. Rationale for choice of measures 2 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 3
7. Appropriate description of measures 3 3 3 2 1 2 2 0 3
8. Description of data collection 3 3 3 2 3 0 2 1 3
9. Recruitment data provided 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 3
10. Justification of analytic method 3 3 1 3 3 0 1 0 2
11. Appropriate analysis 3 3 3 2 3 2 3 0 3
12. Consideration of stakeholders in design 0 0 2 3 0 0 1 0 0
13. Strengths and limitations discussed 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 0 2
Total 31 31 30 28 25 14 23 8 33
Shakespeare-Finch et al. (2014) Simsir and Dilmac, (2021) Simsir et al. (2021) Taher and Allan (2020) Taylor et al. (2020) Umer and Elliot (2021) Uy and Okubo (2018) Wen et al. (2020)
1. Theoretical underpinning to research 3 2 3 2 1 3 3 0
2. Statement of research aims 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3
3. Description of setting/population 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 3
4. Appropriate study design 3 1 2 3 3 3 3 3
5. Appropriate sampling 1 1 1 3 3 2 3 3
6. Rationale for choice of measures 1 0 1 3 2 0 2 2
7. Appropriate description of measures 1 2 2 3 1 3 3 3
8. Description of data collection 2 1 2 3 3 2 3 2
9. Recruitment data provided 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 2
10. Justification of analytic method 3 2 0 3 2 2 3 2
11. Appropriate analysis 3 2 2 3 3 3 3 3
12. Consideration of stakeholders in design 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0
13. Strengths and limitations discussed 3 1 2 2 2 3 3 3
Total 25 17 21 33 24 27 31 29