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. 2024 Apr 12;28(4):e708–e719. doi: 10.1055/s-0044-1782629

Table 1. Quality assessment of studies according to the adapted Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.

Selection Comparability Results
Studies Sample representativeness Sample size Answer rate Risk factor Adequacy of design and analysis Evaluation of results Appropriate statistical analyses Score
Androulidakis and Jones (2006) 19 * * ** * 5
Epp et al. (2013) 14 * ** * ** * 7
Zhang et al. (2014) 15 * * * ** * 6
Maamor and Billings (2017) 16 * ** * ** * 7
Tanner et al. (2019) 17 * * * ** * 6
Rocha et al. (2022) 18 * * * ** * 6

Note: Score classification: high quality (9–6); moderate quality (4–5); and low quality (< 4).