She also assisted with assessing studies for inclusion, methodological quality assessment, and data extraction.
The κ statistic was used to assess agreement between the evaluators regarding trial selection and methodological quality assessment.
Methodological quality assessment yielded a median Rosendal Score of 58%.
(PDF 140 kb) Additional file 2: Results of methodological quality assessment undertaken on included studies.
A methodological quality assessment carried out for each group demonstrated significant heterogeneity in study design.
The average score of 71±9% in methodological quality assessment indicated an appropriate quality of most studies.
For methodological quality assessment, the STROBE (Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology) checklist was used.
The Cochrane risk of bias tool and the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale were used for the methodological quality assessment of the included studies.
Table 1 Criteria list of methodological quality assessment of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) [7] 1. Study population (30 points) (a) Description of inclusion and exclusion criteria (1 point).
Bias in methodological quality assessment was minimized by the independent assessment of study quality by the two researchers (VA and AH).
Table 3 Methodological quality assessment of included studies by MINORS Methodological item Farronato et al. [15] Ss score Altug-Atac et al. [21] Score 1.
