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. 2020 Apr 7;20(2):162–170. doi: 10.4103/jips.jips_393_19

Table 1.

Risks of bias assessment

Study Selection bias Performance bias Blinding of participants and personnel Detection bias Blinding of outcome assessment Attrition bias Incomplete outcome data Reporting bias Selective reporting

Random sequence generation Allocation concealment
van der Wijk et al. (1998) Low Low Low Low Low Low
Takanashi et al. (2004) Low Unclear Low Unclear Low Low
Stoker et al. (2007) Low Unclear Low Unclear Low Low
Walton et al. (2009) Low Unclear High High Low Low
Cristache et al. (2012) High High High Low Low Low
Heydecke et al. (2005) Low Unclear Low Unclear Low Low
Zitzmann et al. (2006) High High High High Low Low
Della Vechia et al. (2017) Low Low Low Unclear Low Low
Jawad et al. (2017) Low High High Low Low Low