Table 3. Quality assessment of the included studies.
Study | Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) | Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) | Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) | Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Other bias |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Zhou et al. | + | + | − | ? | + | + | + |
Varpula et al. | ? | + | − | ? | + | ? | ? |
Li et al. | + | − | − | ? | + | + | + |
Putensen et al. | ? | ? | − | ? | + | ? | − |
Zhou et al. | + | ? | − | ? | + | ? | + |
Hirshberg et al. | + | + | − | ? | + | + | + |
Li et al. | + | ? | − | ? | + | + | ? |
+, low risk of bias; −, high risk of bias; ?, unclear risk.