General practice based psychosocial interventions for supporting carers of people with dementia or stroke: a systematic review

Table 3 Quality assessment of the selected studies

		Reference
Quality Item [28]		Burns et al., [29]	Nichols et al., [30]	Fortinsky et al., [31]	Rodriguez-Sanchez et al., [32]
1	Question / objective sufficiently described?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2	Study design evident and appropriate?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
3	Method of subject/comparison group selection or source of information/input variables described and appropriate?	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes
4	Subject (and comparison group, if applicable) characteristics sufficiently described?	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes
5	If interventional and random allocation was possible, was it described?	Yes	N/A	N/A	Yes
6	If interventional and blinding of investigators was possible, was it reported?	Yes	Partial	N/A	No
7	If interventional and blinding of subjects was possible, was it reported?	Partial	No	N/A	No
8	Outcome and (if applicable) exposure measure(s) well defined and robust to measurement / misclassification bias? Means of assessment reported?	Yes	Partial	No	Yes
9	Sample size appropriate?	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes
10	Analytic methods described/justified and appropriate?	Yes	Partial	Partial	Yes
11	Some estimate of variance is reported for the main results?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
12	Controlled for confounding?	Partial	Yes	No	Yes
13	Results reported in sufficient detail?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
14	Conclusions supported by the results?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Overall quality score		93%	58%	81%	86%

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