Table 2.
Quality assessment for included reviews
| Provides a priori design | Duplicate data extraction | Search ≥2 databases plus another mode of searching | Searched for reports regardless of their publication types | Included a list of included studies | Reports characteristics of individual studies | Assesses quality of studies | Uses the scientific quality of the studies appropriately | Uses appropriate methods to combine the findings of studies | Assessed likelihood of publication bias | Includes conflict of interest statement | Overall quality rating | |
| Pearson and Biddle19 | N | Y | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | low |
| Hale and Guan24 | N | N | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | low |
| Marsh et al 1 | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | medium |
| Costigan et al 8 | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | medium |
| Dutch et al 9 | N | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | N | Y | low |
| Goncalves de Oliveira et al 23 | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | high |
| Hoare et al 20 | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | medium |
| Carson et al 17 | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | medium |
| LeBlanc et al 18 | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | medium |
| Tremblay et al 10 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | medium |
| van Ekris et al 11 | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | medium |
| Suchert et al 21 | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | medium |
| Wu et al 22 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | medium |