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. 2013 Sep 17;13(Suppl 3):S13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-S3-S13

Table 3.

Quality assessment of trials on complementary food with or without education

Quality Assessment Summary of Findings
Directness No of events

No of studies Design Limitations Consistency Generalizability to population of interest Generalizability to intervention of interest Intervention Control RR or SMD (95% CI)

Respiratory infections: Moderate outcome-specific quality

3 studies [20,22,26] RCT Random effect model was used because of heterogeneity One study suggest benefit 375 448 RR 0.67 (0.49, 0.91)

Diarrhea/vomiting: Moderate outcome-specific quality

3 studies [20,22,26] RCT Random effect model was used because of heterogeneity None of the study suggest benefit 424 488 RR 0.75 (0.42, 1.35)

Fever: low outcome-specific quality

2 studies [17,22] RCT Random effect model was used because of heterogeneity None of the study suggest benefit 195 187 RR 0.89 ( 0.41, 1.90)