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. 2019 Apr 2;2019(4):CD011118. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011118.pub3

Schatz 2015.

Methods RCT. 2 arms. Assessed at pretreatment and post‐treatment
Participants End of treatment: N = 46
 Start of treatment: N = 48
 Sex: 27 F, 19 M
 Mean age: 13.04 (SD 2.5)
 Source: clinic
 Diagnosis: sickle cell disease
 Mean years of pain: lifelong
Interventions "CBT coping skills training"
"Waitlist standard care"
Outcomes Primary pain outcome: pain intensity
 Primary disability outcome: activity score from daily diary
Primary depression outcome: none
Primary anxiety outcome: none
Primary satisfaction outcome: none
Measures reported:
daily pain diary and activity log
Coping Strategies Questionnaire
Notes Funding statement: this work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R21HL0923365 to J.S. and C.B.M. and T32 GM081740 and F31HL108582 to A.M.S.)
Declaration of interest: the authors declare no conflicts of interest
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk "Randomization was achieved by drawing colored marbles out of an opaque bag (wave 1) or by computer software using blocks of 10 (wave 2)."
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk "A researcher not involved in study data collection prepared sequentially numbered, opaque, sealed envelopes that assigned each participant and were opened by the youth."
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk No description found in text
 Comment: probably not done
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Participants completed questionnaires electronically
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Attrition completely reported; significant differences between completers and non‐completers were not reported
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk Data incompletely reported