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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Exerc Sci. 2017 Jan 4;29(3):297–315. doi: 10.1123/pes.2016-0143

Table 1.

Bias assessment of resistance training studies with metabolic outcomes among children and adolescents using the Cochrane Collaboration criteria.

Source Random
sequence
generation		 Allocation
concealment		 Blinding of
participants &
personnel		 Blinding of outcome assessment Incomplete outcome data Selective Reporting Other bias
Ackel-D’Elia, 2014a(2) ? ? − ? ? + ?
Benson, 2008(6) + + − + + + +
Damaso, 2014a(8) ? ? − + + + ?
Davis, 2009(9) ? ? − ? + + +
Davis, 2009(10) ? ? − ? + + +
de Piano, 2012a(11) ? ? − ? + + ?
Hasson, 2012b(16) ? ? − ? + + +
Kelly, 2015(18) ? + − ? + + +
Lee S, 2012(21) + + − ? + + +
Lee S, 2013(22) + + − ? + + +
Shaibi, 2006(33) ? ? − + + + +
Sigal 2014(3, 35) + + − + + + +
Suh, 2011(37) + ? − ? + + +

(+) = low risk of bias; (–) = high risk of bias; (?) = unclear risk of bias

a

The Inter-disciplinary Obesity Program of the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo-UNIFESP project (GEO) has been conducted annually since 2004;

b

Latino population overlaps with Davis, Obesity, 2009 article; African American population does not overlap. Each individual study fully design is described in Table 2.