Table 1. Quality assessment of studies according to the adapted Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.
Selection | Comparability | Results | ||||||
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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).