Table 2.
Summary of quality score of the 17 quantitative studies
Good (rated 4) | Fair (rated 3) | Poor (rated 2) | Very poor (rated 1) | Total rated | |
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Abstract and title | 9 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 17 |
Introduction and aims | 3 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 17 |
Method and data | 0 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 17 |
Sampling | 2 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 17 |
Data analysis | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 17 |
Ethics and bias | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 17 |
Findings/results | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
Transferability/generalizability | 0 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 17 |
Implications and usefulness | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
Distribution of Total score (max score = 36) | 1 × 17 – 2 × 19 – 1 × 20 – 1 × 24 – 3 × 25 – 1 × 26 – 2 × 27 – 1 × 28 – 2 × 29 – 3 × 30 |