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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2017 Apr 27;100:194–207. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.04.033

Table 3.

Results of sensitivity analysis comparing overall and subtotal estimates of the effect on mean percentage weight change of DPP-based eHealth interventions from a meta-analysis including all interventions and a meta-analysis that included only interventions tested in studies with methodological quality score of ≥ 6/10

Subtype Total number of participants Heterogeneity (I2) Estimate of mean percentage weight change (95% CI)
 Interventions included
Overall
 All interventions 2097 88.2% −3.98% (−4.49%, −3.46%)
 Only interventions tested in studies with quality scores ≥ 6/10 1330 80.7% −3.40% (−3.94%, −2.85%)

Stand-alone interventions
 Interventions from all studies 822 82.4% −3.34% (−4.00%, −2.68%)
 Only interventions tested in studies with quality scores ≥ 6/10 822 82.4% −3.34% (−4.00%, −2.68%)

Interventions delivered remotely
 Interventions from all studies 861 78.4% −4.31% (−5.26%, −3.37%)
 Only interventions tested in studies with quality scores ≥ 6/10 255 34.6% −4.14% (−5.60%, −2.67%)

Interventions delivered face-to-face
 Interventions from all studies 414 94.5% −4.65% (−6.63%, −2.67%)
 Only interventions tested in studies with quality scores ≥ 6/10 253 87.0% −3.33% (−5.07%, −1.59%)