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. 2015 Jan 13;2015(1):CD005397. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005397.pub4

Toledo 2000.

Methods Design: randomised controlled trial
Participants Number: 40
Age: intervention group: mean age 53.7, comparator group 1: mean age 55.4, comparator group 2: mean age 58.9
Gender: intervention group: 3 males, comparator group 1: 2 males, comparator group 2: 5 males
Setting: not reported
Eligibility criteria: BPPV diagnosed with clinical assessment and electronystagmography
Exclusion criteria: CNS disturbances
Baseline characteristics: described as similar between the groups but not reported
Interventions Intervention group: VR (PC, head‐eye and habituation) (n = 10)
Comparator group 1: Semont manoeuvre (n = 10)
Comparator group 2: Semont + VR (n = 20)
VR versus other versus VR + other
Outcomes Primary outcome: Dix‐Hallpike cure rate
Notes Number of participants at follow‐up assessments was not reported
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information about the sequence generation process
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information about the method of allocation
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 All outcomes High risk There was no blinding of assessors or participants
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk It is not clear from the results or the figures whether the data from all participants are included
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk Numbers of participants in each group not provided in figures of results; data not reported adequately to enable meta‐analysis
Other bias Low risk The study appears to be free of other sources of bias