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. 2021 Oct 20;12:730945. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.730945

Table 4.

Methodological quality of the included studies using the PEDro rating scale.

Study name Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Total* Study quality
Akin and Kesilmiş (2020) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 Moderate
Alikhani et al. (2019) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Arabatzi (2018) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Asadi and Arazi (2012) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Asadi (2013) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Asadi et al. (2015) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Benis et al. (2016) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Bouteraa et al. (2020) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 High
Chaouachi et al. (2014b) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Chaouachi et al. (2014a) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Cherni et al. (2019) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Cigerci and Genc (2020) 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 5 Moderate
Drouzas et al. (2020) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 Moderate
Faigenbaum et al. (2014) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Hammami et al. (2019c) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Hammami et al. (2019a) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Hammami et al. (2019b) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Hammami et al. (2020a) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Hammami et al. (2020c) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Hammami et al. (2020b) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Hopper et al. (2017) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Huang et al. (2014) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Jlid et al. (2019) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Jlid et al. (2020) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Karadenizli (2016) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Kim and Park (2016) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Lee et al. (2020) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Lovecchio et al. (2019) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Makhlouf et al. (2018) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
McLeod et al. (2009) 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 5 Moderate
Meszler and Váczi (2019) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Myer et al. (2006) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 Moderate
Nobre et al. (2017) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Porrati-Paladino and Cuesta-Barriuso (2021) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Porrati-Paladino and Cuesta-Barriuso (2021) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 Moderate
Ramírez-Campillo et al. (2015b) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Ramírez-Campillo et al. (2015a) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Ritzmann et al. (2018) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Surakhamhaeng et al. (2020) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Tay et al. (2019) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Trecroci et al. (2015) 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 High
Witzke and Snow (2000) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 Moderate

A detailed explanation for each PEDro scale item can be accessed at https://www.pedro.org.au/english/downloads/pedro-scale.

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From a possible maximal punctuation of 10.