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. 2017 Jun 26;19(6):e229. doi: 10.2196/jmir.6972

Table 3.

Systematic review quality (N=20).

Systematic review R-AMSTAR Itema Score

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Tsai et al, 2005 [22] 3 4 3 1 3 4 4 4 1 1 1 29
Weinstein, 2006 [12] 3 1 4 2 4 4 1 2 1 1 1 24
Sharma, 2007 [23] 3 4 1 3 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 23
Neve et al, 2009 [14] 4 4 4 1 3 4 4 4 4 4 1 37
Osei-Assibey et al, 2010 [24] 3 4 4 3 2 4 4 4 2 1 1 32
Arem and Irwin, 2011 [13] 3 4 4 2 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 25
Burke et al, 2011 [25] 3 1 4 4 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 24
Manzoni et al, 2011 [16] 3 4 4 1 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 24
Young et al, 2011 [26] 3 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 2 1 1 34
Kodama et al, 2012 [15] 3 4 3 1 1 4 1 1 4 4 1 27
Reed et al, 2012 [17] 4 4 4 1 3 4 4 1 4 4 1 34
Wieland et al, 2012 [18] 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 1 38
Chang et al, 2013 [19] 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 1 1 1 33
Grunenberg et al, 2013 [21] 3 1 3 2 1 4 4 4 4 2 3 31
Bennett et al, 2014 [20] 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 34
Hartmann-Boyce et al, 2014 [27] 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 43
Altman and Wilfley, 2015 [28] 3 4 3 1 3 4 1 1 2 1 1 24
Gilmartin and Murphy, 2015 [29] 3 4 3 2 3 4 4 4 1 1 1 30
Levine et al, 2015 [30] 4 4 4 4 3 4 1 1 4 4 1 34
Raaijmakers et al, 2015 [31] 3 4 4 1 3 4 4 4 1 1 1 30
Mean 3.32 3.55 3.60 2.30 3.00 4.00 2.80 2.55 2.20 1.95 1.25 30.50
Median 3.00 4.00 4.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.00 3.00 1.50 1.00 1.00 30.50
SD 0.48 1.10 0.75 1.17 0.86 0.00 1.51 1.50 1.40 1.39 0.79 5.54
IQR 1 0 0.5 2 0.25 0 3 3 3 3 0 9.25

a Item 1: a priori design; item 2: duplicate study selection and data extraction; item 3: comprehensive literature search; item 4: publication status as an inclusion criteria; item 5: list of included and excluded studies; item 6: characteristics of included studies; item 7: documented assessment of the scientific quality of included studies; item 8: appropriate use of the scientific quality in forming conclusions; item 9: appropriate use of methods to combine study findings; item 10: assessment of publication bias likelihood; item 11: conflict of interest documentation.