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. 2022 Aug 19;11(3):739–753. doi: 10.1556/2006.2022.00052

Table 4.

Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) summary of findings table for the outcomes of the systematic review and meta-analysis

Quality assessment Summary of results
Number of studies Study design Risk of bias Inconsistency Indirectness Imprecision Publication biases Number of participants Effect General quality
Prevalence (95%CI)
22 Cross-sectional Serious* Very serious** No serious Serious*** Not detected 13,365 40.3% (95% CI: 32.2%–48.7%) ⊕○○○
Very low

*High risk of bias was detected in 40.9% of studies

**High inconsistency, assessed through heterogeneity, was detected in the meta-analyses

***The confidence interval of the effect estimate varied more than 5 points