Table 1.
Study | Selection Bias | Design | Confounders | Blinding | Data Collection | Withdrawals and Dropouts | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Atef 2020 [29] |
1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Chirico 2019 [30] |
1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Feyzioğlu 2020 [31] | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
House 2016 [32] |
1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
McGarvey 2009 [33] | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Mohammad 2018 [34] | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Piejko 2020 [35] |
2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Schneider 2003 [36] | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Schneider 2004 [37] | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Schneider 2007 [38] | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Schneider 2011 [39] | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
1—strong; 2—moderate; 3—weak.