Chart 2. Quality assessment of the included studies using the Cochrane risk of bias tool.
Study | Random sequence generation | Allocation concealment | Blinding of participants and personnel | Blinding of outcome assessment | Incomplete outcome data | Selective reporting | Other bias |
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Bygdeman and Swahn (1996) 14 | |||||||
Loprinzi et al. (1997) 15 | |||||||
Balk et al. (2002) 32 | |||||||
Labrie et al. (2009) 45 | |||||||
Bachmann and Komi (2010) 52 | |||||||
Oh et al. (2010) 33 | |||||||
Raghunandan et al. (2010) 16 | |||||||
Ekin et al. (2011) 67 | |||||||
Genazzani et al. (2011) 46 | |||||||
Jonasson et al. (2011) 61 | |||||||
Labrie et al. (2011) 27 | |||||||
Le Donne et al. (2011) 28 | |||||||
Lee et al. (2011) 17 | |||||||
Loprinzi et al. (2011) 18 | |||||||
Amato et al. (2013) 34 | |||||||
Grimaldi et al. (2012) 29 | |||||||
Tedeschi and Benvenuti (2012) 35 | |||||||
Chen et al. (2013) 68 | |||||||
Lima et al. (2013) 36 | |||||||
Portman et al. (2013) 53 | |||||||
Zheng et al. (2013) 30 | |||||||
Constantine et al. (2015) 54 | |||||||
Fernandes et al. (2014) 19 | |||||||
Labrie et al. (2014) 47 | |||||||
Lima et al. (2014) 37 | |||||||
Portman et al. (2014) 55 | |||||||
Archer et al. (2015) 48 | |||||||
Bouchard et al. (2015) 49 | |||||||
Goetsch et al. (2015) 65 | |||||||
Labrie et al. (2015) 50 | |||||||
Tungmunsakulchai et al. (2015) 57 | |||||||
Hickey et al. (2016) 20 | |||||||
Jokar et al. (2016) 31 | |||||||
Juliato et al. (2017) 21 | |||||||
Labrie et al. (2016) 51 | |||||||
Melisko et al. (2017) 58 | |||||||
Postigo et al. (2016) 38 | |||||||
Seyyedi et al. (2016) 22 | |||||||
De Souza et al. (2016) 39 | |||||||
Yaralizadeh et al. (2016) 40 | |||||||
Cruz et al. (2018) 63 | |||||||
Malakouti et al. (2017) 41 | |||||||
Nappi et al. (2017) 23 | |||||||
Nazarpour et al. (2017) 59 | |||||||
Suwanvesh et al. (2017) 42 | |||||||
Diem et al. (2018) 24 | |||||||
Golmakani et al. (2019) 66 | |||||||
Mitchell et al. (2018) 25 | |||||||
Nazarpour et al. (2018) 60 | |||||||
Torky et al. (2018) 62 | |||||||
Archer et al. (2019) 56 | |||||||
Ghorbani et al. (2019) 43 | |||||||
Mitchell et al. (2019) 26 | |||||||
Palma et al. (2019) 44 | |||||||
Politano et al. (2019) 64 |
Key: High risk of bias; Unclear risk of bias; Low risk of bias