Table 2.
Summary of critical appraisal of included RCTs.
| Author | Validity | Relevance | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study design | Subject size | Randomization | Intention to treat | Blinding | Equal treatment | Similar baseline characteristics | Domain | Determinant | Outcome measurements | Level of evidence | |
| Arjinpathana and Asawanonda (2010) [1] | RCT | 60 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 2 |
| Zubair et al. (2016) [4] | RCT | 32 | — | — | — | + | + | + | + | + | 2 |
| Weschawalit et al. (2017) [3] | RCT | 60 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 2 |