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. 2016 Oct 6;2016(10):CD011175. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011175.pub2

Schatz 2015.

Methods RCT.
Multicentrer.
USA.
Participants Display adherence, 1 major or 3 minor pain episodes in last 6 months, no chronic transfusion, no cognitive limitations.
Interventions Intervention: CBT.
Control: routine care.
Outcomes 1 face‐to‐face session, 45 – 60 min; weekly telephone session: 30 – 40 min.
Materials on cell phone to take home; follow up 8 weeks.
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Drawing coloured marbles out of opaque bag or computer software using blocks of 10.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Researcher not involved in the trial prepared sequentially numbered opaque sealed envelopes.
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement of ‘low risk’ or ‘high risk’.
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement of ‘low risk’ or ‘high risk’.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk 4% not completed.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All outcomes reported.
Other bias Unclear risk No other bias anticipated, but insufficient information to permit judgement of ‘low risk’ or ‘high risk’.