Sripathy 2004.

Methods	Demographic comparison using reason for placement
Participants	Kinship n = 31 Foster n = 31 Recruited from foster care agency located in New York City; youth required to have been living with their foster families for at least 6 months
Interventions	See Table 2
Outcomes	Educational Attainment ‐ Repeated a Grade Service Utilisation ‐ Mental Health Services Behavioural Development ‐ Behaviour Problems; Adaptive behaviours
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	No attempt was made to equate the kinship care and foster care groups through controlling for covariates; Evidence on child demographics was reported on the comparability of the groups
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Uncertain if kinship care and foster care groups experienced different exposure to the intervention; Uncertain if groups received different services during placement
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Kinship care and foster care groups were defined in same way; There was evidence of biased assessment resulting from the type of placement
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	All participants were not accounted for in the reporting of results; Uncertain if attrition could have influenced the results
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	Instrumentation used to measure the outcomes was specified completely; Reliability and/or validity information was not reported for some instrumentation