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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2021 Mar 4;160:103290. doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2021.103290

Table 4.

Overall effect sizes for fatigue and vitality/vigor outcomes

Sample Size Effect Size Estimate Heterogeneity Publication Bias
Post-intervention Outcome K n Hedges’s g 95% CI p Q p I2 Fail-safe N Criterion N Egger’s test p
Fatigue 17 1,592 0.60 [0.36, 0.83] <0.001 74.99 <0.001 78.66 436 95 t(15) = 3.22 0.003
Vitality/Vigor 11 1,050 0.39 [0.25, 0.52] <0.001 11.46 0.323 12.74 112 65 t(9) = 3.68 0.003
First Follow-up Outcome
Fatigue 12 1,165 0.42 [0.20, 0.64] <0.001 33.60 <0.001 67.27 120 70 t(10) = 1.85 0.047
Vitality/Vigor 6 474 0.35 [0.03, 0.67] 0.030 12.42 0.029 59.75 14 40 t(4) = 0.30 0.391

Note: K = number of studies. n = total number of participants included in the analysis. Q = Cochran’s (1954) Q-statistic of heterogeneity. I² = percentage of between-study variability. Fail-safe N = Rosenthal’s Fail-safe N. Criterion N = 5K+10.