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. 2017 Apr 5;12(4):e0174530. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174530

Table 2. Awareness and knowledge of SYRCLE’s risk-of-bias tool and bias risk control factors.

Survey contents Total N = 266 Current students n = 118 (44.4%) Research staff n = 148 (55.6%) P value
Awareness and Knowledge of SYRCLE’s Risk-Of-Bias Tool
Has heard of it but does not understand detail and content 42(15.8) 10(8.5) 32(21.6) 0.003
Has heard of it and also understands detail and content 8(3.0) 3(2.5) 5(3.4) 0.972
Considered the items of SYRCLE’s Risk-Of-Bias Tool was "very necessary"
1. Sequence generation 228(85.7) 103(87.3) 125(84.5) 0.314
2. Baseline characteristics 210(78.9) 98(83.1) 112(75.7) 0.143
3. Allocation concealment 107(40.2) 48(40.7) 59(39.9) 0.893
4. Random housing 82(30.8) 41(34.7) 41(27.7) 0.217
5. Blinding (caregivers and researchers) 110(41.4) 56(47.5) 54(36.5) 0.071
6. Random outcome assessment 172(64.7) 77(65.3) 95(64.2) 0.857
7.Blinding (outcome assessors) 158(59.4) 78(66.1) 80(54.1) 0.047
8.Incomplete outcome data 217(81.6) 98(83.1) 119(80.4) 0.580
9.Selective outcome reporting 132(49.6) 60(50.8) 72(48.6) 0.722