Item	Authors’ judgement	Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation?	Unclear	Method not reported in published article and unable to contact authors to get further information.
Allocation concealment?	Unclear	Unable to contact authors to get further information.
Blinding?	No	Probably not as the control group were not taking a placebo.
Incomplete outcome data addressed?	Yes	All participant data reported.
Free of selective reporting?	Unclear	No protocol provided, but all nominated and expected outcomes reported.
Free of other bias?	Yes	None identified.