Villagrana 2008.
Methods | No control for confounders No demographic comparison |
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Participants | Kinship n = 110 Foster n = 153 Local sample drawn from youth in one or more public service sectors of care duing 1996 ‐ 1996 in San Diego County |
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Interventions | See Table 2 | |
Outcomes | Behavioural Development ‐ Behaviour Problems; Adaptive behaviours | |
Notes | ||
Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | High risk | No attempt was made to equate the kinship care and foster care groups; No evidence 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; Groups received different services during placement |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Uncertain if kinship care and foster care groups were defined in same way; There was no 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) | Low risk | Instrumentation used to measure the outcomes was specified completely; Reliability and/or validity information was reported for instrumentation |