Additional Table 1.
The quality assessment of the included trials
| Study | Selection bias | Study design | Confounders | Blinding | Data collection | Withdrawals and dropouts | Intervention integrity | Analysis appropriate to question | Global rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kohsakaetal., 1999 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| O’Brien and O’Connor, 2000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Cajochen et al., 2005 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Crasson and Legros, 2005 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hansen et al., 2005 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Ruger et al., 2006 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Takasu et al., 2006 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Viola et al., 2008 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Chellappa et al., 2012 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Santhietal., 2012 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Sahin and Figueiro, 2013 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Sahinetal., 2014 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Leichtfried et al., 2015 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Okamoto and Nakagawa, 2015 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Muenchetal., 2016 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Borragan et al., 2017 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Rahman etal., 2017 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Rodriguez-Morilla et al., 2017 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Hartstein etal., 2018 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Kazemi etal., 2018 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Cajochen etal., 2019 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Choi etal., 2019 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| deZeeuwetal., 2019 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Smotek etal., 2019 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Studer etal., 2019 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| teKulve etal., 2019 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Yang etal., 2019 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Park et al., 2020 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Zhou etal., 2021 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
1: Strong; 2: moderate; 3: weak.