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. 2021 Dec 8;21(24):8186. doi: 10.3390/s21248186

Table 3.

Assessment of reliability using the COSMIN standards for studies on reliability checklist.

Items First Author and Year
Awan (2002) Beshara (2016) Bonnechère (2014) Cai (2019) Chan (2010) Chen (2020) Cools (2014) Correll (2018) Çubukçu (2020) Cuesta-Vargas (2016) Da Cunha Neto (2018)
1. Were patients stable in the time between repeated measurements on the construct to be measured? VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG A
2. Was the time interval between the repeated measurements appropriate? A VG VG VG A A A A VG VG A
3. Were the measurement conditions similar for the repeated measurements–except for the condition being evaluated as a source of variation? VG VG VG VG A VG VG VG VG VG A
4. Did the professional(s) administer the measurement without knowledge of scores or values of other repeated measurement(s) in the same patients? VG VG VG A VG VG VG VG A A A
5. Did the professionals(s) assign scores or determine values without knowledge of scores or values of other repeated measurements(s) in the same patients? VG VG VG A VG VG VG VG A A A
6. Were there any other important flaws in the design or statistical methods of the study? D D VG A I A VG VG VG VG A
7. For continuous scores: was an intraclass correlation (ICC) calculated? A VG A VG A VG VG VG VG VG A
8. For ordinal scores: was a (weighted) kappa calculated? N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
9. For dichotomous/nominal scores: was Kappa calculated for each category against the other categories combined? N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Overall Score D D A A I A A A A A A
Items First Author and Year
De Baets (2020) deWinter (2004) Dougherty (2015) Hawi (2014) Huber (2015) Hwang (2017) Kolber (2011) Kolber (2012) Lim (2015) Mejia-Hernandez (2018) Milgrom (2016)
1 Were patients stable in the time between repeated measurements on the construct to be measured? VG VG A VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG
2. Was the time interval between the repeated measurements appropriate? A A VG A A A A VG VG A A
3. Were the measurement conditions similar for the repeated measurements–except for the condition being evaluated as a source of variation? VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG
4. Did the professional(s) administer the measurement without knowledge of scores or values of other repeated measurement(s) in the same patients? A A VG A VG A VG VG VG VG A
5. Did the professionals(s) assign scores or determine values without knowledge of scores or values of other repeated measurements(s) in the same patients? A A VG A VG A VG VG VG VG A
6. Were there any other important flaws in the design or statistical methods of the study? A VG VG D A D VG VG VG VG D
7. For continuous scores: was an intraclass correlation (ICC) calculated? VG A A VG VG A VG VG VG A A
8. For ordinal scores: was a (weighted) kappa calculated? N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
9. For dichotomous/nominal scores: was Kappa calculated for each category against the other categories combined? N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Overall Score A A A D A D A VG VG A D
Items First Author and Year
Mitchell (2014) Picerno (2015) Poser (2015) Ramos (2019) Rigoni (2019) Schiefer (2015) Scibek (2013) Shin (2012) Walker (2016) Werner (2014)
1. Were patients stable in the time between repeated measurements on the construct to be measured? VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG
2. Was the time interval between the repeated measurements appropriate? A A VG VG A A A A A A
3. Were the measurement conditions similar for the repeated measurements–except for the condition being evaluated as a source of variation? VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG VG
4. Did the professional(s) administer the measurement without knowledge of scores or values of other repeated measurement(s) in the same patients? VG A A A VG VG A VG VG VG
5. Did the professionals(s) assign scores or determine values without knowledge of scores or values of other repeated measurements(s) in the same patients? VG A A A VG VG A VG VG VG
6. Were there any other important flaws in the design or statistical methods of the study? VG VG A VG VG A A VG A A
7. For continuous scores: was an intraclass correlation (ICC) calculated? VG VG VG A VG VG VG VG VG VG
8. For ordinal scores: was a (weighted) kappa calculated? N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
9. For dichotomous/nominal scores: was Kappa calculated for each category against the other categories combined? N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Overall Score A A A A A A A A A A

Abbreviations: VG: very good; A: adequate, D: doubtful; I: inadequate; N/A: not applicable.