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. 2010 Mar 17;2010(3):CD005575. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005575.pub3

Sargeant 2004 New Recruit.

Methods Design: Randomised controlled trial
Duration of follow‐up: 3 months
Participants Country: United Kingdom
Urban workplace
Intervention group n=55
Control group n=47
Age, gender not reported; however, they are working age adults
Interventions Personalised travel advice
Travel information pack
Ongoing travel advice updates
Duration of intervention: 3 months
Outcomes Travel mode:
‐ % of trips alone by car in preceding 5 working days
‐ % of participants who travelled alone by car for all of preceding 5 working days
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation? High risk Sequence generation method not reported
Allocation concealment? High risk Allocation concealment method not reported
Blinding? 
 All outcomes High risk Blinding not feasible. Could have influenced outcomes
Incomplete outcome data addressed? 
 All outcomes High risk Loss to follow‐up known to have occurred but participant flow not clearly reported
Free of selective reporting? Unclear risk Not clear that all pre‐specified outcomes were included
Free of other bias? Low risk No other sources of bias identified
Adequate matching of intervention / control groups? High risk Apparently substantial baseline differences in travel mode between intervention and control groups despite randomisation. Baseline car use was 45.5% in intervention group and 51.9% in control group.