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. 2017 Aug 22;27(3):202–219. doi: 10.1007/s11065-017-9356-2

Table 1.

Overall effect sizes and Egger’s bias coefficients

Marker Number of studies included Effect size Heterogeneity Publication bias
Odd’s ratio 95% CI I 2 (%) p-value Egger’s bias coefficient p-value
PSD
 Laterality 60a 1.07 0.93–1.23 49.6 < .001 0.14 .743
 Type 14b 0.94 0.65–1.36 33.3 .102 −0.06 .943
 Frontal lesions 30c 1.54 1.27–1.88 43.4 .004 0.92 .132
 Subcortical lesions 10d 1.06 0.81–1.38 0.0 .601 1.00 .186
 Basal ganglia lesions 12e 1.78 1.20–2.66 65.3 .001 0.24 .884
PSA
 Laterality 9 1.16 0.62–2.18 63.5 .005 1.69 .262
 Type 4 0.82 0.19–3.53 75.2 .007 −3.92 .273
 Frontal lesions 5 0.84 0.44–1.59 0.0 .635 2.71 .055
 Subcortical lesions 2 1.03 0.38–2.80 0.0 .686 Not enough data
 Basal ganglia lesions 4 1.32 0.79–2.21 0.0 .891 −0.42 .536

CI confidence interval, PSA post-stroke apathy, PSD post-stroke depression

aSix of the 60 studies provided data on more than one time point

bOne of the 14 studies provided data on more than one time point

cFive of the 30 studies provided data on more than one time point

dTwo of the 10 studies provided data on more than one time point

eOne of the 12 studies provided data on more than one time point