Table 3.
Quality assessment for included reviews
| KEY | 1. Was an a priori design provided? | 2. Was there duplicate study selection and data extraction? | 3. Was a comprehensive literature search performed? | 4. Was the status of publication used as an inclusion criteria? | 5. Was a list of studies (included and excluded) provided? | 6. Were the characteristics of the included studies provided? | 7. Was the scientific quality of the included studies assessed and documented? | 8. Was the scientific quality of the included studies used appropriately in formulating conclusions? | 9. Were the methods used to combine the findings appropriate? | 10. Was the likelihood of publication bias assessed? | 11. Was the conflict of interest included? | R-AMSTAR SCORE | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y | YES | N | NO | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Study | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown et al (2015) | N | 2 | N | 1 | Y | 4 | Y | 3 | N | 1 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 2 | Y | 1 | N | 1 | N | 3 | 26 (medium) | |||
| Audrey & Batista-Ferrer (2015) | Y | 3 | Y | 2 | Y | 4 | Y | 3 | N | 2 | Y | 2 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | N | 1 | 31 (medium) | |||
| Hunter et al (2015) | N | 2 | N | 1 | Y | 3 | N | 1 | N | 1 | Y | 3 | Y | 3 | Y | 4 | Y | 1 | N | 1 | N | 2 | 22 (low) | |||
| Mayne et al (2015) | N | 2 | N | 1 | N | 1 | Y | 2 | Y | 1 | Y | 3 | Y | 4 | Y | 3 | N | 1 | N | 1 | N | 2 | 21 (low) | |||
| Sauni et al (2015) | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 2 | N | 3 | 41 (high) | |||
| McCartney et al (2017) | N | 2 | N | 1 | N | 2 | Y | 2 | N | 1 | Y | 1 | Y | 1 | Y | 4 | Y | 1 | N | 1 | N | 1 | 17 (low) | |||
| Macmillan et al (2018) | N | 3 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 2 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 1 | N | 1 | N | 3 | 34 (high) | |||
| Moore et al (2018) | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 3 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 2 | Y | 3 | N | 1 | N | 3 | 36 (high) | |||
| Stappers et al (2018) | Y | 3 | Y | 3 | Y | 3 | Y | 2 | Y | 3 | Y | 3 | Y | 4 | Y | 3 | N | 1 | N | 1 | N | 2 | 28 (medium) | |||
| Tseng et al (2018) | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 3 | N | 1 | Y | 3 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | N | 2 | 33 (medium) | |||
| Hunter et al (2019) | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 3 | Y | 1 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 3 | N | 2 | N | 3 | 36 (high) | |||
| Ige et al (2019) | N | 2 | Y | 2 | Y | 4 | Y | 2 | Y | 1 | N | 1 | Y | 3 | Y | 4 | N | 1 | N | 1 | N | 2 | 23 (medium) | |||
| Persaud et al (2019) | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 3 | Y | 3 | Y | 3 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 4 | Y | 1 | N | 1 | N | 2 | 33 (medium) | |||