Table A1:
AMSTAR Scores of Included Systematic Reviews
| Author, Year | AMSTAR Scorea | (1) Provided Study Design | (2) Duplicate Study Selection | (3) Broad Literature Search | (4) Considered Status of Publication | (5) Listed Excluded Studies | (6) Provided Characteristics of Studies | (7) Assessed Scientific Quality | (8) Considered Quality in Report | (9) Methods to Combine Appropriate | (10) Assessed Publication Bias | (11) Stated Conflict of Interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunot et al11 | 9 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cuijpers et al38 | 8 | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ |
| Cuijpers et al20 | 8 | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ |
| Guidi et al31 | 6 | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ | √ | ✗ | ✗ | √ | √ | ✗ |
| Churchill et al22 | 9 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cuijpers et al37 | 7 | √ | ✗ | √ | ✗ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ |
| Biesheuvel-Leliefeld et al29 | 8 | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ |
| Linde et al21 | 9 | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ |
| Karyotaki et al35 | 8 | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ |
| Clarke et al30 | 7 | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Amick et al36 | 9 | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ |
| Cuijpers et al14 | 9 | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ |
| Jakobsen et al46 | 7 | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ✗ | ✗ |
Abbreviation: AMSTAR, A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews.
a
The maximum possible score is 11. Details of AMSTAR score are provided in Shea et al.18