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. 2019 Jul 16;23:101933. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101933

Table 2.

Evaluation of quality criteria in intervention studies among people with cognitive impairment (A) and cognitively healthy elderly (B) in descending order of total scoring: + = fulfills criteria; − = does not fulfill criteria; ± = fulfills criteria only partly; ? = cannot be concluded from the study report.

Study Randomization described and acceptable Valid definition of diagnosis Inclusion and exclusion criteria described Adequate statistical power described with power analyses Valid measurements and outcome measures Baseline characteristics in groups described and groups comparable Drop-out described and included in analysis Intention to treat analysis Comparison of differences in changes between the groups in outcome variables Blinding used Description of intervention Compliance described Complications described Total score
A)

Morris et al., 2017 + + + + + + + + + + + + 12

Suzuki et al., 2013 + + + + + + + ? + + + + + 12

Ten Brinke et al., 2015 + + + + + ± + + + + + + 11

Smith et al., 2013 + + + + ± + + + + 8

Reiter et al., 2015 + + + + + + + + 8

Frederiksen et al., 2018; van der Kleij et al., 2018 + + + + + ± + + + 8

Suo et al., 2016 + + + + ± + + + + 8

Burdette et al., 2010 + + + + + + + 7

Köbe et al., 2016 + + + + ± + + + 7

Chirles et al., 2017 + + + + + + ± + 7

Anderson-Hanley et al., 2018 ± + ± + + ± + ? + + + 7

Nagamatsu, 2012 ± + + ± + + ± + 5




B)

Liu-Ambrose et al., 2010 + + + + + + ? + + + + + + 12

Liu-Ambrose et al., 2012 + + + + + + + + + 9

Best et al., 2015 ± + + + + + + + + + 9

Nishiguchi et al., 2015 + + + ± + + ? + + + + 9

Matura et al., 2017 ± + + + + + ± + + + + 9

Chapman et al., 2013 + + + + + ? + ? + + 8

Ruscheweyh et al., 2011 + + + + + ± + 6

Maass et al., 2015 + ± + + + + ? + 6

Kleemeyer et al., 2016 + + ± + + ± + ? + ± 6

Godde and Voelcker-Rehage, 2017 + + + + + + 6

Colcombe et al., 2006 + ± ± + + + ? + 5

Erickson et al., 2011 ± + ± + + + ? + ± 5

Voss et al., 2010 + ± + ± + ? + + 5

Voss et al., 2013a + + + + ? + 5

Tamura et al., 2015 + + ± + ± ± + ? + 5

Nagamatsu et al., 2016 + + ± + + ? + 5

Rosano et al., 2017 ± ± ± + + + + ± + 5

Holzschneider et al., 2012 + ± + ± + ? + 4

Flodin et al., 2017; Jonasson et al., 2016 + ± ± + + ± + ? ± 4

Colcombe et al., 2004 ± ± + ± + ? ± 2