| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Participants were randomized to treatment conditions. However, No description of random sequence generation was provided. |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
No description of allocation concealment was provided. |
| Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) |
High risk |
Blinding of participants and personnel was not possible due to the nature of the intervention and study design. |
| Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) |
Unclear risk |
No description of blinding of outcome assessment was provided. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) |
High risk |
“Hispanics had higher follow‐up rates than the other groups…persons classified as an employment problem, however, were more likely to have received a 10‐month follow‐up interview…a higher percentage of Group 1 clients received follow‐up interviews, compared to members of the other groups; members of Group 2 had the lowest follow‐up rates”. |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Low risk |
No evidence of reporting outcomes selectively was detected. |
| Other bias |
High risk |
“The only exception to the randomization process was that after two women were randomly assigned to the nonhoused control group a decision was made to randomize all subsequent female participants to one of the housed groups”. |