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The uncertainty of the baseline estimates and study assumptions was tested by conducting sensitivity analyses.

In addition, we assessed the overall risk of bias by conducting sensitivity analyses to explore possible sources of heterogeneity across studies.

We opted to examine the robustness of our results by using two different approaches for evaluating early discontinuation and by conducting sensitivity analyses, which allowed varying lengths of gaps in medication supply.

We also included several indicators designed to measure each participant's propensity to report positive change and will control for the placebo effect by conducting sensitivity analyses using these propensity to positivity scores.

By selecting term pregnancies we have avoided the effect of recurring preterm birth, and by conducting sensitivity analyses we have ruled out the possibility that we are reporting recurrence of birth defects or placenta praevia.

Women with missing values for a given adjustment variable were assigned to a separate category for that variable, and the effect of this strategy was explored by conducting sensitivity analyses among women with known values for all adjustment variables.

Because of the low number of studies included, conducting sensitivity analyses (by rerunning the analyses with multiply adjusted studies removed, missing sex or age adjustments removed, lower- and intermediate-rated studies removed, or systematic removal) was not possible.

Furthermore, to explore the potential residual confounding by smoking, we conducted sensitivity analyses among never and ever smokers.

To determine whether the results have been influenced by missing data, we will conduct sensitivity analyses by fitting the models with completed datasets obtained by imputing the missing data [ 35].

22 On the advice of our study steering group (including policy experts, clinicians and people with SMI) we therefore pooled all admissions irrespective of how they were coded by the provider, and conducted sensitivity analyses.

Because children with low or high birth weight may have a different obesity risk later in life and because size at birth may have been influenced by intrauterine exposures, we conducted sensitivity analyses restricting the sample to children in the normal range of weight at birth (2,500 4,000 g; n = 318) (Oken and Gillman 2003; Wang et al. 2009; Wojtyniak et al. 2010).