Soltoft 1976.
Methods | RCT | |
Participants | 59 patients Setting unclear Mean age 40 years 64% female |
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Interventions | Bulking agent 6 weeks wheat bran 30 g/day | |
Outcomes | Global assessment, dichotomous | |
Notes | Unclear setting >1 week run‐in | |
Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Not described |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Low risk | Adequate |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Double‐blind, placebo of similar appearance |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Missing outcome data balanced in numbers across intervention groups with similar reasons for missing data across groups |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | All expected outcomes were reported |
Other bias | Low risk | The study appears to be free of other sources of bias |