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Several trials included multiple intervention arms [39, 71, 72, 87] resulting in a total of 72 individual exercise interventions.
Where multiple intervention arms were compared with usual care within a single study, each exercise arm was considered a separate intervention and data extracted accordingly.
In trials with multiple intervention arms, combining these into a single group is the recommended approach for meta-analysis to avoid unit-of-analysis errors arising from correlated intervention effects.
Three studies had multiple intervention arms for one behaviour.
Excessive weightings were controlled in studies with multiple intervention arms, consistent with published guidance (17).
Four studies in the meta-analysis had multiple intervention arms [ 32, 49- 51].
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In only three multiple-intervention arm studies did study authors establish different intervention groups with and without hygiene or other non-water improvement steps in order to isolate the impact of water quality (URL 1995; Opryszko 2010; Lindquist 2014).
When studies investigated multiple interventions, intervention arms inclusive of exercise where combined, including interventions separating aerobic and resistance exercise.
For studies with multiple treatment arms, only the relevant intervention arms were taken into consideration.
Stratified analysis in well-powered randomized trials, preferably with multiple treatment arms, can help us to further unravel the causal mechanism between patient and intervention characteristics.
29 Where studies had multiple comparisons (several intervention arms or reported outcomes for different behaviours) or were cRCTs, we adjusted participant numbers in line with Cochrane recommendations where possible.
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