Table 4. Quality assessment by the AMSTAR 2 checklist.
Sl.No | AMSTAR 2 ITEMS | Dharmayani et al. [11] | Głąbska et al. [12] | Lassale et al. [16] | Quirk et al. [9] |
2021 | 2020 | 2018 | 2013 | ||
1. | Was an ‘a priori’ design provided? | No | Yes | No | No |
2. | Was there duplicate study selection and data extraction? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
3. | Was a comprehensive literature search performed? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
4. | Was the status of publication (i.e. grey literature) used as an inclusion criterion? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
5. | Was a list of studies (included and excluded) provided? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
6. | Were the characteristics of the included studies provided? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
7. | Was the scientific quality of the included studies assessed and documented? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
8. | Was the scientific quality of the included studies used appropriately in formulating conclusions? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
9. | Were the methods used to combine the findings of studies appropriate? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
10. | Was the likelihood of publication bias assessed? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
11. | Was the conflict of interest included? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Total grade | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | |
Total score out of 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
Total percentage = 90.90% |