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. 2014 Jan 31;2014(1):CD006546. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006546.pub3

Villagrana 2008.

Methods No control for confounders
No demographic comparison
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
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