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. 2020 May 21;9(5):1557. doi: 10.3390/jcm9051557

Table A2.

The reporting quality of the included studies evaluated by the observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) checklist.

Nacul et al., [26] Lindal et al., [13] Rimes et al., [27]
Title and abstract
1a. Indicate the study design Yes Yes Yes
1b. Informative and balanced abstract Yes Yes Yes
Introduction
2. Background/rationale Yes Yes Yes
3. Objectives Yes Yes Yes
Methods
4. Study design Yes No/Unclear No/Unclear
5. Setting Yes Yes No/Unclear
6a. Participants Yes Yes Yes
7. Variables Yes Yes Yes
8. Data sources/measurement Yes Yes Yes
9. Bias No/Unclear No/Unclear No/Unclear
10. Study size Yes No/Unclear No/Unclear
12a. Statistics: description of all methods Yes Yes Yes
12b. Statistics: subgroups and interactions Yes Yes Yes
12c. Statistics: missing data Yes Yes Yes
12d. Statistics: loss to follow-up Yes Not applicable Yes
12e. Statistics: sensitivity analyses Yes No/Unclear No/Unclear
Results
13a. Participants: individual at each stage Yes Yes Yes
13b. Participants: reasons for non-participation Yes No/Unclear Yes
13c. Participants: flow diagram Yes No/Unclear No/Unclear
14a. Descriptive data: characteristics of participants Yes Yes Yes
14b. Descriptive data: missing data Yes Yes Yes
14c. Descriptive data: follow-up Yes Not applicable Yes
15. Outcome data Yes Yes Yes
16a. Main results Yes Yes Yes
Discussion
18. Key results Yes Yes Yes
19. Limitations Yes Yes Yes
20. Interpretation Yes No/Unclear No/Unclear
21. Generalisability Yes No/Unclear No/Unclear
Other information
22. Funding No/Unclear No/Unclear No/Unclear

Note. The following items are not displayed in the figure as they were not applicable to the included studies: 6b, 11, 16b, 16c, 17.