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. 2019 Apr 5;21(4):e12286. doi: 10.2196/12286

Table 1.

Quality assessment of included studies based on Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) criteria.

Study first author, year, and reference EPHPP criteria Global rating
Selection bias Study design Confounders Blinding Data collection methods Withdrawals and dropouts
Burns, 2011 [23] Weak Moderate Weak Moderate Strong Strong Weak
Hawley, 2013 [24] Weak Weak Weak Moderate Weak Weak Weak
Manuvinakurike, 2014 [22] Weak Strong Strong Moderate Moderate Strong Moderate
Martin, 2012 [25] Moderate Strong Weak Moderate Strong Weak Weak
Morrison, 2017 [26] Moderate Moderate Weak Strong Strong Weak Weak
Ortiz-Catalan, 2016 [27] Moderate Moderate Weak Moderate Weak Weak Weak
Sadasivam, 2016 [21] Weak Strong Strong Strong Moderate Strong Moderate
Zeevi, 2015 [28] Weak Strong Weak Moderate Weak Weak Weak