Table 2.
Summary of critical appraisal of included RCTs.
Author | Validity | Relevance | |||||||||
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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 |