Table Info

Table 2.

Assessment of bias in various domains in the randomized clinical trials included in the systematic review

Study	Random sequence generation	Allocation concealment	Blinding of participants and personnel	Concealment of outcome assessors	Incomplete outcome data	Selective reporting of results
Tenore et al. [28], 2017	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low
Chai et al. [27], 2012	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low
Koutsos et al. [25], 2020	Low	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Low
Vafa et al. [29], 2011	Low	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Low
Ravn-Haren et al. [26], 2013	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low

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LMdF: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Visualization. LAAdS: Methodology, Investigation, Visualization. MAFdA: Investigation, Visualization. NVdNM: Investigation, Validation. MGSP: Visualization, Writing—original draft. VRM: Visualization, Writing—original draft. JLM: Writing—review and editing. ML: Writing—review & editing. AD: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing. DDRA: Writing—review and editing. MdCdCeM: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing.

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