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. 2022 Jun 29;22(2):27. doi: 10.5334/ijic.5960

Table 4.

QualSyst Tool for assessment of quality of the included studies.


QUANTITATIVE STUDIES

AUTHOR OBJECTIVE AND STUDY DESIGN (1,2) PARTICIPANT SELECTION AND CHARACTERISTICS (3,4) RANDOM ALLOCATION AND BLINDING (5,6,7) OUTCOME (8) SAMPLE SIZE (9) ANALYTICAL METHODS (10,11,12,13) CONCLUSION SUPPORTED BY RESULTS (14) TOTAL SUM TOTAL POSSIBLE SUM SUMMARY SCORE (%) LIBERAL THRESHOLD (55 ≤ %) CONSERVATIVE THRESHOLD (75 ≤ %)

Aftab et al., (2018) (1) 2 4 0 2 1 3 1 13 22 46 0 0

Chwastiak et al., (2018) (2) 4 3 2 2 2 5 2 19 24 69 1 0

McKibbin et al., (2010) (3) 2 3 0 2 1 4 2 15 22 54 0 0

Sajatovic et al., (2011) (4) 4 3 2 2 2 4 2 19 24 69 1 0

Sajatovic et al., (2017) (5) 4 4 2 2 2 3 2 21 28 75 1 1

QUALITATIVE STUDIES

AUTHOR OBJECTIVE AND STUDY DESIGN (1,2) FRAMEWORK AND SAMPLING (3,4,5) DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS (6,7,8) VERIFICATION AND CONCLUSION (9,10) TOTAL SUM TOTAL POSSIBLE SUM SUMMARY SCORE (%) LIBERAL THRESHOLD (55 ≤ %) CONSERVATIVE THRESHOLD (75 ≤ %)

Blixen et al., (2014) (6) 4 4 6 2 16 20 80 1 1

Lawless et al., (2016) (7) 2 4 1 1 8 20 40 0 0