Table 5. Scale for the Assessment of Narrative Review (maximum two stars each) was used to assess the eligibility of narrative reviews.
Author and year of publication | Type of the study | Justification of the article’s importance for the readership | Statement of concrete aims or formulation of questions | Description of the literature search | Referencing | Scientific reasoning (e.g., incorporation of appropriate evidence, such as RCTs in clinical medicine) | Appropriate presentation of data (e.g., absolute vs relative risk; effect sizes without confidence intervals) |
Wang et al. 2019 [8] | Narrative review | ** | ** | - | ** | ** | ** |