Table 10.
Summary of findings for waist circumference (WC).
| Study Name, Year | Intervention Group | Control Group | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | Post-Intervention | Baseline | Post-Intervention | ||||||||
| N | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p | |
| Abedimanesh 2017 # [57] | 25 | 95 | 12.85 | 92.68 | 13.03 | 25 | 92.84 | 9.13 | 91.42 | 8.94 | NS |
| Azimi 2016 # [45] | 42 | 102.26 | 1.5 | 102.02 | 1.5 | 39 | 100.92 | 1.4 | 100.66 | 1.4 | NS |
| Ebrahimi 2019b [47] | 40 | 104.31 | 7.85 | 100.02 | 7.32 | 40 | 102.95 | 7.94 | 104.33 | 7.42 | <0.001 |
| Kermani2017 # [53] | 24 | 103.9 | 9.5 | 103.2 | 9 | 24 | 101.5 | 8.1 | 105.9 | 15.7 | NS |
| Zilaee 2018 # [55] | 32 | 105.76 | 9.01 | 103 | 9.02 | 32 | 103.36 | 12.09 | 101.03 | 12.69 | NS |
Abbreviations used: NS (not significant), p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. # study of low quality according to risk of bias assessment.