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Table 4 Quality assessment of included studies

From: The effect of fatigue on postural control in individuals with multiple sclerosis: a systematic review

Article

Downs and Black checklist item

Total

(0–28)

Reporting

External validity

Bias

Confounding

Power

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

 

Drebinger et al. (2020)

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

0

0

1

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

16

Jallouli et al. (2022)

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

1

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

16

Sanni et al. (2021)

1

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

13

Karpatkin et al. (2013)

1

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

1

0

0

1

0

1

1

1

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

15

Emmerik et al. (2010)

1

1

1

0

1

1

1

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

1

1

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

14

  1. Notes: 2, criterion fully met (item 5); 1, criterion met or partially met (item 5); 0, criterion not met
  2. Downs and Black checklist item descriptions: 1, hypothesis/aims/objectives reported; 2, main outcome measures reported; 3, participant characteristics reported; 4, intervention details reported; 5, principal confounders reported; 6, main findings reported; 7, variability in main outcomes reported; 8, adverse events reported; 9, loss to follow-up reported; 10, probability values reported; 11, source population representative of entire population; 12, study population representative of source population; 13, study setting representative of usual care; 14, participants blinded to intervention; 15, outcome assessors blinded; 16, no retrospective subgroup analysis; 17, analysis adjusts for different lengths of follow-up of participants; 18, statistical tests are appropriate; 19, reliable compliance with intervention; 20, outcome measures are valid and reliable; 21, recruitment of study groups from same population; 22, recruitment of participants over same period;23, randomization of participants; 24, allocation concealment; 25, adjustment for confounding variables in main analysis; 26, adjustment for loss to follow-up in main analysis; 27, inclusion of sample size calculation