Table 1.
Evaluation and scoring of the quality of the 27 selected articles with the MMAT and AMSTAR tools
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| Author, yr (Ref) | Method | Participants | MMAT or AMSTAR scores |
| Teede et al ., 2010 (19) | Review | - 100% | |
| Roos et al ., 2011 (20) | Retrospective cohort | Swedish women, including 3787 births in women with PCOS and 1, 191, 336 births in women without PCOS | 100% |
| Fauser et al. , 2012 (21) | Consensus | - There was no routine format for questionnaire evaluation. The research team assessed quality in terms of the relationship between the content of the article and the purpose of the research, the type of journal, and the sources of the article. Good | |
| Li et al ., 2018 (22) | Retrospective cohort | 3 groups were included: group A included 6000 healthy women, group B included 24,566 women with PCOS without pre-treatment, and group C included 222 patients with PCOS with treatment | 100% |
| Sánchez-Ferrer et al ., 2020 (23) | Case-control study | 117 women with PCOS and 153 controls | 100% |
| Azziz et al ., 2005 (24) | Systematic review | - -No mention of grey literature -No mention of the characteristics of the included studies -No mention of the scientific quality of the assessed studies 75% | |
| Pasquali et al ., 2005 (25) | Review | - There was no routine format for questionnaire evaluation. Quality was assessed by the research team in terms of the relationship between the content of the article and the purpose of the research, the type of journal, and the sources of the article. Good | |
| Pfister and Rømer, 2017 (26) | In-depth individual and semi-structured interviews | 21 Danish women with PCOS | 100% |
| Rotterdam ESRHE/ ASRM sponsored PCOS consensus workshop group 2004 (27) | Report and consensus | - There was no routine format for questionnaire evaluation. Quality was assessed by the research team in terms of the relationship between the content of the article and the purpose of the research, the type of journal, and the sources of the article. Medium | |
| Norman et al ., 2002 (28) | Review | - There was no routine format for questionnaire evaluation. Quality was assessed by the research team in terms of the relationship between the content of the article and the purpose of the research, the type of journal, and the sources of the article. Good | |
| Bellver et al ., 2018 (6) | Review | - -No mention about grey literature -No mention about the characteristics of the included studies -No mention of the scientific quality of the included studies 75% | |
| Rzońca et al ., 2018 (29) | Cross-sectional, correlational | 504 women with PCOS | 100% |
| Zare Mobini et al ., 2018 (30) | Exploratory mixed methods, consisted of 3 consecutive phases | -A phase in women with PCOS -Another phase with 2 groups of women with and without PCOS | 100% |
| Amiri et al ., 2014 (31) | Qualitative study with semi-structured interviews | 23 women with PCOS | 100% |
| Jalilian et al ., 2015 (32) | Meta-analysis review | 19,226 women from 10-45 yr | 81% No mention of publication bias assessed and methodological rigor |
| Eftekhar et al ., 2014 (33) | Cross-sectional study | 130 married women with PCOS | 80% The sampling strategy was not clear |
| Bazarganipour et al ., 2014 (8) | Cross-sectional study | 300 women with PCOS | 80% Risk of nonresponse bias was not clear |
| Allahbadia and Merchant, 2011 (34) | Systematic review | - There was no routine format for questionnaire evaluation. Quality was assessed by the research team in terms of the relationship between the content of the article and the purpose of the research, the type of journal, and the sources of the article. Good | |
| Mahmouda et al ., 2015 (35) | Cohort study | 180 women with PCOS divided into 2 groups: Overweight/obese (BMI 25) and healthy-weight women (BMI 25) | 80% The sample size was too small |
| Weiss and Bulmer, 2011 (36) | Mixed methods study with phenomenology method | 12 women with PCOS aged 18-23 yr | 100% |
| Kaczmarek et al ., 2016 (37) | Systematic review-meta-analysis | English and French language articles focusing on HRQoL in patients with PCOS aged 13-24 yr | 100% |
| Hashemi et al ., 2014 (38) | Cross-sectional study | 591 married women with PCOS aged 18-45 yr | 80% No mention of the risk of nonresponse bias |
| Holton et al ., 2018 (39) | Deep qualitative interviews with women with PCOS | 70 women of reproductive age with PCOS | 80% The qualitative data collection methods were not adequate to address the research question |
| Avery and Braunack-Mayer, 2007 (40) | Deep qualitative interviews with women with PCOS | 10 South Australian women with PCOS | 100% |
| Sanchez and Jones, 2016 (41) | Review magazines related to women | Well-known women's magazine data | 90% Not a known evaluation tool for assessing selected articles |
| Mazloomy Mahmoodabad, et al ., 2016 (42) | Cross-sectional descriptive study | 70 women with PCOS | 80% The sample size was too small |
| Nasiri Amiri et al ., 2013 (43) | Content analysis | 20 women aged 18-39 yr with PCOS | 100% |
| MMAT: Mixed methods appraisal tool, AMSTAR: Assessing the methodological quality of systematic reviews, PCOS: Polycystic ovary syndrome, BMI: Body mass index | |||