Table 2.

Studies on physical activity and exercise for the management of systemic lupus erythematosus [62, 76, 78, 80, 81, 88, 94]

^aP intervention/management strategy applied to population under investigation, C intervention/management strategy applied to participants in the comparator group

^bHRQoL health-related quality of life, NS non-significant

^cStudy design and overall appraisal (adapted from the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis [19]); green colour denotes a robust study and yellow colour denotes intermediate robustness in overall appraisal; MA meta-analysis, RCT randomized controlled trial

^dLoE levels of evidence according to the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine [20]; light blue colour denotes level 1 (strongest evidence) and dark blue colour denotes level 2