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. 2017 Oct 13;5(4):79. doi: 10.3390/sports5040079

Table 3.

Quality assessment of included reviews.

Domain 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 AMSTAR Score 4
Study
Bleakley & Stinson (2011) [21] Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No No 5
Buffart et al. (2012) [22] Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 8
Cramer et al. (2012) [23] Yes Yes Yes CA 2 No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 9
Harder et al. (2012) [24] Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes 8
Lee et al. (2007) [17] Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No 6
Levine et al. (2012) [25] Yes CA Yes No No No No No Yes No No 3
Pan et al. (2015) [19] Yes Yes Yes CA No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 8
Pan et al. (2017) [18] Yes Yes Yes CA No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 8
Shneerson et al. (2013) [15] Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 9
Stan et al. (2012) [16] Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No No No 6
Zhang et al. (2012) [20] Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes NA 3 Yes 8
Domain total score across studies 11 9 11 3 0 10 9 9 7 2 7

1 Quality assessment domains: 1 was an ‘a priori’ design provided; 2 was there duplicate study selection and data extraction; 3 was a comprehensive literature search performed; 4 was the status of publication (i.e., grey literature) used as an inclusion criteria; 5 was a list of studies (included and excluded) provided; 6 was characteristics of the included studies provided; 7 was the scientific quality of the included studies assessed and documented; 8 was the scientific quality of the included studies used appropriately in formulating conclusions; 9 was the methods used to combine the findings of studies appropriate; 10 was the likelihood of publication bias assessed; 11 was potential conflicts of interest included. 2 CA: Can’t answer. 3 NA: Not applicable. 4 A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) score: very high ≥10, high: 8–9.9, medium: 4–7.9, low: 0–3.9.