Table 1.

Quality appraisal.

Author	Type of study design	Aptness of study design for research aims	Demographic information of participants	Approach to recruitment reported
Groat et al [29]	Observational	No	Yes	Yes
Gonder-Frederick et al [30]	Observational	Yes	Yes	Yes
Skrosveth et al [31]	Observational	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tansey et al [27]	Randomized controlled trial	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kamble et al [32]	Randomized controlled trial	Yes	Yes	Yes
Martinez- Sarrigui et al [33]	Randomized controlled trial	Yes	Yes	Not reported
Gonzalez- Molero et al [34]	Longitudinal cohort study	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kirwan et al [35]	Randomized controlled trial	Yes	Yes	Yes
Polonsky et al [36]	Cross-sectional	Yes	Yes	Yes
Barnard et al [37]	Cross-sectional	Yes	Yes	Yes
Naranjo et al [38]	Cross-sectional	Yes	Yes	Yes
Borges and Kubiak [39]	Cross-sectional	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shepherd et al [40]	Qualitative	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ritholz et al [41]	Qualitative	Yes	Yes	Yes
O’Kane et al [42]	Ethnography	Yes	Yes	Yes
Storni [43]	Ethnography	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lawton et al [44]	Qualitative	Yes	Yes	Yes
Barnard et al [45]	Mixed methods	Yes	Yes	Yes