Connolly 2013.

Methods	RCT
Participants	164 adult survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, who volunteered to receive brief treatment for symptoms of trauma. All participants met the DSM‐IV criterion A1 for Post‐ Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms Age range: 18‐100 years
Interventions	Thought field therapy (TFT) is a brief treatment that includes exposure to the problem and identification of feelings elicited by thinking about the problem and stimulation of selected acupoints on the surface of the skin in a sequence that is specific to identified emotions. Elements of PTSD are targeted via a trauma treatment protocol
Outcomes	PTSD symptoms, as measured with the Modified PTSD Symptom Scale (MPSS); other symptoms that trauma victims experience (i.e. anxiety, depression, anger/irritability, intrusive experience, etc.), as measured with the Trauma Symptom Investory (TSI)
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Low risk	Quote: "A randomised controlled study (...) participants were randomly assigned to an immediate treatment group or the wait list control group"
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Low risk	Quote: "Clank surveys were in file folders delineated as treatment (blue folders) or wait list control group (red folders) and were stacked alternately. The intake person took the top file from the stack and assigned the participant to that group and continued with the alternating group assignments. The person handing out the folders was not aware of the implications of the different colored folders"
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	No information provided
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	No information provided
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	The number of participants evaluated at the study endpoint is unclear
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	All outcomes listed in the "Methods" section are reported in the "Results" section, but only effect sizes were reported for study endpoint (and the number of participants evaluated at endpoint is not clear)
Therapist qualification	Unclear risk	Quote: "The selected therapists included respected community leaders"
Treatment fidelity	Low risk	Quote: "The trainers were available for supervision throughout the entire study, ensuring that the newly trained Rwandan therapists adhered to the standard Thought Field Therapy algorithm protocols throughout the treatment phases of the study"
Therapist/investigator allegiance	High risk	Study authors were involved in treatment development
Other bias	Unclear risk	No information provided