Table 5. Risk for bias assessment.
Study | Selection of participants | Confounding variables | Intervention measurement | Blinding of outcome assessment | Incomplete outcome data | Selective outcome reporting |
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Jalessi et al 15 | – | – | + | – | + | ? |
Harvey et al 26 | + | + | + | – | + | + |
Rioja et al 19 | – | – | + | – | + | + |
Tam et al 23 | + | – | + | – | + | + |
Kim et al 24 | – | – | + | – | + | ? |
Thompson et al 28 | – | – | + | – | ? | – |
+, low risk of bias; –, high risk of bias; ?, unclear.