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. 2023 Aug 24;29(2):689–714. doi: 10.1007/s10459-023-10274-3

Table 3

Study Representativeness of Intervention Group Selection of Comparison Group Comparability of Comparison Group Study Retention Blinding of Assessment Total
(Amabile et al., 2021) 0 0 2 1 1 4
(Anders et al., 2022) 0 1 0 0 1 2
(Biwer et al., 2022) 1 1 1 1 1 5
(Blasiman, 2017) 1 1 0 0 1 3
(Breckwoldt et al., 2016) 1 1 0 1 0 3
(Brown-Kramer, 2021) 1 1 0 1 0 3
(Burdo & O’Dwyer, 2015) 1 1 1 1 1 5
(Cadaret & Yates, 2018) 1 1 1 1 1 5
(Carpenter et al., 2016) 1 1 1 1 1 5
(Carpenter et al., 2018) 1 1 1 1 1 5
(Cecilio-Fernandes et al., 2018) 1 1 0 1 1 4
(Dobson & Linderholm, 2015a, b) 1 1 1 1 1 5
(Dobson et al., 2018) 1 1 1 1 1 5
(Dobson, 2011) 1 1 2 1 1 6
(Dobson, 2012) 1 1 2 1 1 6
(Dobson, 2013) 0 1 2 0 1 4
(J. L. Dobson and Linderholm, 2015a, b) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Dobson et al., 2019) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Dobson et al., 2015) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Dobson et al., 2017) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Ernst et al., 2014) 1 1 1 1 1 5
(Fendos, 2020) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Francis et al., 2020) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Glass et al., 2013) 0 1 2* 0 1 4
(Gopalan et al., 2020) 1 1 0 1 0 3
(Gurung & Burns, 2019) 1 0 2 1 1 5
(Hernick, 2015) 1 1 2 1 0 5
(Higham et al., 2022) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Iwamoto et al., 2017) 1 1 0 0 0 2
(Janes et al., 2020) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Kerdijk et al., 2015) 0 1 2 1 1 5
(Keus et al., 2019) 1 0 1 1 1 4
(LaDisa & Biesboer, 2017) 1 0 0 1 1 3
(Lawson, 2022) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Linderholm et al., 2016) 0 1 1 1 1 4
(Logan et al., 1975) 0 1 2 1 0 4
(Messineo et al., 2015) 0 1 2 1 1 5
(Miller & Srimaneerungroj, 2022) 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Moore & Chalk, 2012) 0 1 0 1 0 2
(Nevid et al., 2016) 0 1 2 1 1 5
(Oermann et al., 2022a, b) 1 1 2 0 1 5
(Oermann et al., 2022a, b) 1 1 2 0 1 5
(Opre et al., 2022) 0 1 1 0 1 3
(Osterhage et al., 2019) 0 1 0 1 1 3
(Palmen et al., 2015) 0 1 2* 1 0 4
(Palmer et al., 2019) 0 1 2* 1 1 5
(Poorthuis & van Dijk, 2021) 1 1 0 1 1 4
(Schmidmaier et al., 2011) 0 1 2 1 1 5
(Schneider et al., 2019) 1 1 2 1 1 6
(Sennhenn-Kirchner et al., 2018) 1 1 2 1 1 6
(Shobe, 2022) 0 1 1 0 1 3
(Terenyi et al., 2018) 1 1 2* 0 1 5
(Terenyi et al., 2019) 1 1 2* 0 1 5
(Timmer et al., 2020) 0 1 2 0 1 4
(Trumbo et al., 2016) Exp 1 1 1 0 0 1 3
(Trumbo et al., 2016) Exp 2 1 1 2* 0 1 5
(Trumbo et al., 2016) Exp 3 1 1 2* 1 1 6
(Wong, 2022) 0 0 0 1 0 1
Average score 0.69 0.91 1.34 0.76 0.84 4.55

Studies denoted with an * are within-subject designs