Table 3.
Quality rating (strong, moderate of weak) for the six Effective Public Health Practice Project domains and overall quality rating
| Study | Selection bias | Study design | Confounders | Data collection | Withdrawal | Analysis | Global rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dozier and Lee (1995) | Weak | Weak | Weak | Strong | n/a | Moderate | Weak |
| Berry et al. (2008) | Weak | Moderate | Moderate | Strong | Weak | Strong | Weak |
| MacBeth et al. (2011) | Weak | Weak | Weak | Strong | n/a | Moderate | Weak |
| Korver‐Nieberg et al. (2013) | Weak | Weak | Strong | Strong | n/a | Strong | Weak |
| Ponizovsky et al. (2013) | Moderate | Weak | Moderate | Strong | n/a | Moderate | Moderate |
| Korver‐Nieberg et al. (2015) | Weak | Weak | Weak | Strong | n/a | Strong | Weak |
| Wickham et al. (2015) | Weak | Weak | Strong | Strong | n/a | Strong | Weak |
| Strand et al. (2015) | Weak | Weak | Weak | Strong | n/a | Strong | Weak |
| Fett et al. (2016) | Weak | Weak | Weak | Strong | n/a | Strong | Weak |
| Sitko et al. (2016) | Weak | Moderate | Strong | Moderate | Strong | Strong | Moderate |
| Castilho et al. (2017) | Weak | Weak | Weak | Strong | n/a | Moderate | Weak |
| Pearce et al. (2017) | Weak | Weak | Moderate | Strong | n/a | Strong | Weak |