| Methods |
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| Participants |
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| Interventions |
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| Outcomes |
|
| Notes |
See Table 8
|
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Low risk |
"Random assignment was made equally to one of three groups by drawing slips of paper indicating the group to which the subject would be assigned." |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not described. |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
Subjective outcomes |
High risk |
Participants aware of group allocation. |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
Objective outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Study did not address objective outcomes. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Withdrawals described: "one subject was eliminated from the study because she was unable to cooperate with data collection". It is unclear if there is any missing data. |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not known. |
| Protection from contamination? |
Low risk |
Interventions administered on an individual basis. |
