Essadi 2010.
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Participants | Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: NS |
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Interventions | Treatment group
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | No details |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | No details |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | High risk | No, participants could tell difference between treatment and drinking water |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | No details provided |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | High risk | Loss to follow‐up excluded and no best‐worst case scenario analysis Losses to follow‐up/withdrawals/exclusions post randomisation: 216 |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | Appropriate outcomes |
Other bias | Unclear risk | Too few details to know Source of funding: NS |