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. 2022 Oct 3;2022(10):CD013337. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013337.pub2
Study Reason for exclusion
Adams 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Agahi 2017 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Agarwal 2019 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia (with early co‐morbid diabetes or prediabetes)
Interventions: not a prevention study
Assuncao 2006 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Atmaca 2003 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia on olanzapine monotherapy
Interventions: not a prevention study
Atmaca 2004 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia on quetiapine monotherapy
Interventions: not a prevention study
Ball 2011 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine or olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Baptista 2007 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia or people with bipolar disorder under olanzapine administration
Interventions: not a prevention study
Baptista 2008 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Baptista 2009 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Barak 2010 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Barak 2016 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Biedermann 2014 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia outpatients
Interventions: not a prevention study
Borba 2011 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Borovicka 2002 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Bushe 2010 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Intervention: compared weight measures in 2 antipsychotic groups independently; not adjunctive treatment
Bustillo 2003 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia outpatients treated with olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Carrizo 2009 Allocation: randomised
Participants: patients under prolonged clozapine administration
Interventions: not a prevention study
Chang 2012 Allocation: randomised
Participants: clozapine‐treated patients with refractory schizophrenia
Internvetion: not a prevention study.
Chen 2010 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Intervention: clozapine + metformin + behavioural lifestyle Intervention compared with clozapine only. Cannot separate metformin effects from behavioural intervention
Chen 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Chen 2015 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Chiu 2016 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Correll 2009 Allocation: not randomised
Correll 2013 Allocation: not randomised
Correll 2020b Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
CTRI/2013/05/003685 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Intervention: metformin
Outcomes: change in weight at the end of 12 weeks
Other: trial was terminated due to loss to follow‐up from 22 out of 30 participants, no published data
Dai 2014 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia with obesity on long‐term antipsychotic treatment
Interventions: not a prevention study
Danilov 2014 Allocation: unclear from methods written in abstract
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Note: only the abstract of this study was written in English and the publication could not be translated, despite best attempts; abstract did not provide sufficient detail on randomisation methods
Deberdt 2005 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia with olanzapine treatment
Interventions: not a prevention study
De Hert 2006 Allocation: not randomised
de Silva 2015 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
Interventions: not a prevention study
Deutsch 2003 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Ding 2005 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Egger 2007 Allocation: randomised
Participants: < 50% schizophrenia‐affected sample
Eriksson 2019 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Fadai 2014 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia on olanzapine treatment
Interventions: not a prevention study
Faghihi 2012 Allocation: randomised
Participants: < 50% schizophrenia‐affected sample
Fan 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Fleischhacker 2010 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Ghanizadeh 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Goodall 1988 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Graham 2005 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bipolar disorder patients that have gained weight with antipsychotics
Interventions: not a prevention study
Hadley 2009 Allocation: not a randomised study, was a review article
Hebrani 2015 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Heikkinen 1993 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Intervention: compared weight measures in 2 antipsychotic groups independently; not adjunctive treatment
Henderson 2005a Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder treated with olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Henderson 2007 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Henderson 2009a Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia and insulin resistance treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Henderson 2009b Allocation: not a randomised study; cross‐over design with no proper comparator group
Henderson 2011 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Hoffmann 2012 Allocation: not a randomised study; cross‐over design with no proper comparator group
Holka‐Pokorska 2015 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Hu 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
IRCT20191223045870N1 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Ishoy 2017 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia spectrum patients
Interventions: not a prevention study
Jamilian 2018 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia inpatient and outpatients
Interventions: not a prevention study
Jarskog 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: outpatients with chronic schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
Interventions: not a prevention study
Jarskog 2018 Allocation: randomised
Participants: overweight schizophrenia patients
Interventions: not a prevention study
Jiang 2017 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia with metabolic syndrome
Interventions: not a prevention study
Joffe 2008 Allocation: randomised
Participants: overweight people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine or olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Kang 2018 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
Interventions: not a prevention study
Kelly 2011 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
Interventions: not a prevention study
Khan 2020 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Kim 2007 Allocation: unclear from methods written in abstract
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Note: full‐text publication could not be obtained despite best attempts to contact study authors; abstract did not provide sufficient detail on randomisation methods
Kim 2016 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia on atypical antipsychotics
Interventions: not a prevention study
Klein 2006 Allocation: randomised
Participants: < 50% schizophrenia‐affected sample
Klein 2008 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Ko 2005 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Kwon 2006 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Larsen 2017 Allocation: randomised
Participants: overweight/obese people with schizophrenia‐spectrum disorder treated with clozapine or olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Li 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Li 2020 Allocation: randomised
Participants: schizophrenia
Intervention: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS); not a pharmacological adjunctive agent
Liu 2004 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Intervention: did not study adjunctive pharmacotherapy; compared weight measures in various antipsychotic groups independently
Lu 2004 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Lyu 2018 Allocation: randomised
Participants: obese men with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Maagensen 2021 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Martin 2019 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
McElroy 2012 Allocation: randomised
Participants: < 50% schizophrenia‐affected sample
Mehta 2014 Allocation: randomised
Intervention: people with first‐episode schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Modell 1965 Allocation: randomised
Participants: obese people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Muscatello 2011a Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Muscatello 2011b Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
NCT00044187 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Intervention: not a prevention review
NCT00114595 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with dyskinesia, people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
NCT00320723 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Intervention: bupropion for nicotine replacement therapy; not a weight‐prevention study
NCT00425815 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Intervention: not a weight‐intervention study
NCT00512070 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bipolar, obesity, metabolic syndrome
Interventions: not a prevention study
NCT00672464 Allocation: randomised
Particiapnts: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
NCT01491490 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
NCT03132571 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Peng 2016 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Pierre 2007 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
Interventions: not a prevention study
Qi 2014 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Radulovic 2002 Allcoation: randomised.
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Ranjbar 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia, schizoaffective and schizophreniform disorders who received olanzapine for the first time
Interventions: not a prevention study
Reeves 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: youth who have experienced clinically significant weight gain during antipsychotic treatment
Interventions: not a prevention study
Simmons 2018 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia, schizophreniform, bipolar I disorder.
Intervention: not studying adjunctive pharmacotherapy; comparing weight gain in ALKS 3831 treatment versus olanzapine
Siskind 2018 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia with metabolic syndrome newly commenced on clozapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Siskind 2020 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Smith 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia treated with antipsychotic medication
Interventions: not a prevention study
Smith 2018 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Strous 2007 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with chronic schizophrenia stabilised on olanzapine
Intervnetion: not a prevention study
Sulejmanpasic 2019 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Talaei 2016 Allocation: randomised
Participants: patients hospitalised and treated with olanzapine due to the onset of an acute episode of schizophrenia or a manic episode of bipolar I disorder
Interventions: not a prevention study
Tavakoli 2014 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia with metabolic syndrome
Interventions: not a prevention study
Taveira 2014 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder on a stable dose of olanzapine
Interventions: not a prevention study
Tek 2014 Allocation: randomised
Participants: women with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Terevnikov 2013 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with first‐generation schizophrenia treated with antipsychotics
Interventions: not a prevention study
Tiihonen 2005 Allocation: randomised
Participants: treatment‐resistant people with chronic schizophrenia
Internventions: not a prevention study
Wang 2009 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Wang 2010 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Intervention: comparing anaesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy
Wang 2012 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with first‐episode schizophrenia who gained > 7% of their weight
Interventions: not a prevention study
Wang 2020a Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Wang 2020b Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Intervention: topiramate and metformin were compared, but no placebo control or usual care group to use as a comparator
Weber 2006 Allocation: randomised
Participants: not indicated
Intervention: no pharmacological adjunct provided, added cognitive/behavioural intervention only
Weiner 2012 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
Intervention: bupropion for nicotine replacement therapy; not a weight prevention study
Whicher 2021 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study
Wu 2012 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with first‐episode schizophrenia who gained > 7% of their pre‐drug weight
Interventions: not a prevention study
Yagcioglu 2005 Allocation: randomised
Participants: people with schizophrenia partially responsive to clozapine
Intervention: not a weight loss intervention.
Yoon 2008 Allocation: randomised
Participants: inpatients with schizophrenia
Interventions: not a prevention study