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. 2022 Sep 1;10(9):1672. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10091672

Table A3.

Other observations incident to review.

Authors Sample
Size
(#s Only)
Bias within Study (See Article)
Selection Bias, Sample Bias, etc.
Effect Size
(Small, Medium, or Large with Cohen’s d Statistic)
Sensitivity, Specificity, F1
Country of Origin (Where Was the Study Conducted?) Statistics Used Strength of Evidence Quality of Evidence
McTavish et al. [17] 349 One region of one country (selection bias), mostly Caucasian males (sample bias) not reported USA Measures of central tendency, Descriptive Statistics I A
Murray et al. [18] 19 One region of one country (selection bias) not reprted UK Measures of central tendency, Descriptive Statistics III B
Morgan et al. [19] 1326 One region of one country (selection bias) small effect size Australia Descriptive statistics I A
Chih et al. [20] 152 One region of one country (selection bias), 81% Caucasian (sample bias) sensitivity (prediction of true lapse) at >4–6% 75% (21/28), specificity (prediction of non-lapse) at >4–6% 88% (234/266) USA Bayesian Network Model III A
Kalapatapu et al. [21] 103 One region of one country (selection bias), 87% female (sample bias) not reported USA Kolmogorov–Smirnov and Shapiro–Wilk tests (normality), Levene’s test (homogeneity of variance), non-parametric tests (continuous variables), chi-square and Fisher’s exact tests (categorical variables), Wilcoxon signed-rank test (change in AUDIT)
score from baseline to end of treatment.
I A
Stoner et al. [22] 76 One region of one country (selection bias), mostly male (sample bias) w = 0.32 USA t-test, chi-square test, and ANCOVA I A
Bock et al. [23] 60 One region of one country (selection bias), mostly female (sample bias) Magnitude of effect ranged from small to large (d+ = 0.46–0.62; 12-week follow-up: d+ = 0.13–0.35). USA chi-square test and ANOVA I A
Freyer-Adam et al. [24] 961 One region of one country (selection bias) not reported Germany Descriptive statistics, measures of central tendency, multivariate logistic regression analysis, t-test I A
Gamito et al. [25] 42 One region of one country (selection bias), mostly male (sample bias) medium effect (0.30) Portugal ANCOVA, t-tests I A
Barrio et al. [26] 24 One region of one country (selection bias) not reported Spain Measures of central tendency, Descriptive Statistics, paired t-tests and chi-square tests III B
Gajecki et al. [27] 144 One region of one country (selection bias), mostly female (sample bias) not reported Sweden ANOVA I A
Glass et al. [28] 349 One region of one country (selection bias) not reported USA Measures of central tendency, descriptive statistics, logistic models, mixed effects models, chi-square I A
Rose et al. [29] 1855 One region of one country (selection bias) not reported USA chi square, t-tests and Wilcoxon Rank Sum tests I A
Jo et al. [30] 1496 One region of one country (selection bias) alcohol consumption (d = 0.24), binge drinking (d = 0.29), total AUDIT-K score (d = 0.34) Korea t-test or chi-square test I A
Mellentin et al. [31] 164 One region of one country (selection bias) not reported Denmark Generalized mixed models I A
Harder et al. [32] 230 One region of one country (selection bias) sensitivity = 0.86; specificity = 0.72 Kenya Multiple linear regression I A
Hendershot et al. [33] 76 One region of one country (selection bias) not reported USA Multi-level modeling and multi-level structural equation modeling III A
Constant et al. [34] 799 Multiple regions of one country (selection bias) not reported Brazil logistic regression and chi-square I A
Graser et al. [35] 240 One region of one country (selection bias) not reported USA Descriptive statistics I A
Hammond et al. [36] 61 One region of one country (selection bias) d = 0.26 (small) USA Descriptive statistics, t-test I A
Manning et al. [37] 1309 One region of one country (selection bias) not reported Australia Descriptive statistics I A
Howe et al. [38] 104 One region of one country (selection bias), mostly young adults median age 20 yrs old (sample bias) not reported USA Descriptive statistics I A
Leightley et al. [39] 123 One region of one country (selection bias), mostly Veteran males (sample bias) Cohen d = 0.5 (medium effect) UK Descriptive statistics I A
McKay et al. [40] 262 One region of one country (selection bias), mostly African American males (sample bias) PDHD lower in TMC (d = 0.35, medium), A-CHESS (d = 0.31, medium), TMC + A-CHESS (d = 0.36, medium), differences between groups small (d ≤ 0.06, small) USA Descriptive statistics I A
O’Grady et al. [41] 60 Selection bias not reported USA Descriptive statistics I A