Results of the Assessing the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews 2 (AMSTAR 2) quality assessment
Reference | AMSTAR items | ||||||||||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Score | |
Christensen et al 4 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cannot answer | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | 75% moderate |
Conger et al 5 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Cannot answer | Cannot answer | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | Yes | Yes | 50% moderate |
Doherty and Smith6 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Cannot answer | Cannot answer | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | Yes | No | 44% moderate |
Gonçalves Ribeiro et al 8 | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | 63% moderate |
Grgic9 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 69% moderate |
Grgic and Pickering10 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 75% moderate |
Grgic et al 11 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 88% high |
Polito et al 12 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 81% high |
Shen et al 13 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 81% high |
Southward et al 14 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Cannot answer | Cannot answer | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 69% moderate |
Warren et al 15 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Cannot answer | Cannot answer | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 75% moderate |