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. 2020 Jul 29;17(15):5487. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17155487

Table 1.

Quality assessment of the systematic reviews using AMSTAR 1.

Systematic Review A Priori Design Included? Duplicate Study Selection/Data Extraction? Comprehensive Literature Search Performed? Status of Publication as Inclusion Criteria? List of Included Studies Provided? Characteristics of Included Studies Provided? * Quality of Studies Assessed and Documented? Quality Assessment Used Appropriately? Methods Used to Combine Results Appropriate? Likelihood of Publication Bias Assessed? Conflict of Interest Stated? **
(Afzal and Khalid, 2016) [30] + + + + + -
(Alhasanat and Fry-McComish, 2015) [42] + + + + -
(Amber Haque, 2015) [31] N/A + + + -
(Evagorou et al., 2016) [43] + -
(Fisher et al., 2012) [8] + + + + + + + +
(Fuhr et al., 2014) [32] + + + + + + + + + + +
(James-Hawkins et al., 2019) [33] + + + + + + + + - N/A +
(Jones and Coast, 2013) [34] + - + + - +
(Klainin and Arthur, 2009) [35] + + + + - +
(Mahendran et al., 2019) [36] N/A + + + + + + + + + +
(Qutteina et al., 2018) [37] + + - + + + + - N/A +
(Sawyer et al., 2010) [40] N/A + + + - +
(Shorey et al., 2018) [38] + + + + + + + + + + +
(Stewart, 2007) [41] + + -
(Zahidie and Jamali, 2013) [39] + + -

Categories for risk of bias are as follows: +, yes; −, no; N/A, not applicable. * No single review provided a list of excluded studies; ** conflict of interest of all included studies was never stated.