Table 1. PEDro Scale for quality assessment of included studies .
Study | Dıracoglu | Tsauo | Chaipinyo | Fitzgerald | Rogers | Rogers | Apparao | Ghosh | Takacs | Jahantigh | Gomiero | Pazit | Bhaskar | Jahanjoo | Elsheikh |
PEDro criteria | 2005 | 2008 | 2009 | 2011 | 2011 | 2012 | 2015 | 2015 | 2017 | 2018 | 2018 | 2018 | 2019 | 2019 | 2020 |
Eligibility criteria | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Random allocation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Concealed allocation | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Baseline comparability | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
blinding of all subjects | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
blinding of all therapists | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
blinding of all assessors | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Adequate follow-up (C85 %) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Intention-to-treat analysis | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Between-group analysis | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Point estimates and variability | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Total score | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 |