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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 17.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Outlook. 2017 Jul 22;65(5):530–548. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2017.07.011

Table 2 –

Cohrane Quality Assessment Tool

Last Name of First Author Selection Bias Allocation Concealment Performance Bias Detection Bias Attrition Bias Reporting Bias Other Bias
Random Sequence Generation Blinding of Participants and Personnel Blinding of Outcome Assessment Incomplete uutcome Data Selective Reporting
Randomization present: Was method disclosed? (yes = Y, no = N)
Babic Y + + + + + + First eight schools to accept invitation and 40 students to return signed consent letters were included; few parents completed evaluation; unclear to what extent parents implemented the strategies; no fidelity checks reported
Beaulieu N ? ? ? ? + + Not all participants received same components of intervention (e.g., at least 30% of parents did not get electronic messages, only 11% of teens did cooking session); process evaluation findings not reported, no fidelity hecks reported
Cook N ? ? ? ? ? + Assessment of mediators did not precede outcome, was performed concurrently; no objective measure for PA—only self-report instruments; no fidelity checks reported
Dewar/McCabe N ? ? ? ? ? + Intervention fidelity 74.0%, IG attended on average <l/2 of the PA sessions (42.5%), & did 9.0% of home PA and nutrition challenges, poor participant compliance with accelerometry. No fidelity checks reported
Di Noia N ? ? ? ? ? + Self-report, self-selected sample; no fidelity checks reported
Gray N ? ? ? ? + + Self-report measures; no fidelity checks reported
Lubans Y + + ? + No fidelity checks reported; teachers selected students
Luszczynska Y + + + + + + No intention-to-treat analysis
Roesch N ? ? ? + + No fidelity checks reported
Smith Y + + ? ? + + Screen time was self-reported, 36% of boys provided complete data for MVPA (no imputation was performed on variable), no fidelity checks reported
Van Lippevelde N ? ? ? ? + + Lack of process evaluation data on implementation and levels of parental involvement; self-report measures, no fidelity checks reported
Werch Y + ? ? ? + + No fidelity checks reported

Note. IG, intervention group; MVPA, moderate to vigorous physical activity; PA, physical activity.

+ = low risk of bias; − = high risk of bias; ? = unsure risk of bias.