The inclusion criteria for study selection were (1) peer-reviewed articles written in Chinese or English, (2) study participants were children and adolescents with age ranges or mean ages between 6 and 18 years, or enrolled in grade 1 through grade 12, (3) observational or experimental study...
Therefore, with the purpose of addressing this evidence gap, the current systematic review aimed to (1) identify studies examining relationships between screen time and health issues among Chinese school-aged children and adolescents from both Chinese and English literature databases, (2) summarize heal...
Development and Evaluation (GRADE) criteria [23]. The evaluation was performed by two authors (NS and ZP) and checked by one author (HP). Given the large number of exposure and outcome variables covered in the meta-analyses, the assessment of certainty of evidence was performed only for...
We managed the survey 1 data using ATLAS.ti 8 software for qualitative data analysis and conducted a conventional content analysis of survey 1 data89. Given the multidisciplinarity of the topic and our multidisciplinary group of respondents, we selected an inductive method of analysis to reflect, ...
Pressure ulcers were considered present if a patient developed a PU grade 2 or worse. If a patient had a PU grade two or worse at the first visit, that PU lesion was excluded from the reg- istration of PUs until the PU healed. Patients with an already present PU grade two or worse ...
there was no reporting guideline available that provided a scoring scheme for the reporting quality. As a consequence we could not grade the reporting quality of the identified articles resulting in a descriptive description of the results. Finally, the appraisal of health literacy instruments was li...
After adjusting for grade, socio-economic status and access to health care per municipality, schools closer to the nearest municipal waste incineration plant were associated with an increased prevalence of wheeze and headache; there was no evident relationship between the distance of schools from such...
Only reviews written in English were included, as this was the language known by all of the authors and the current international standard. Theory and opinion papers were not included, as they would not provide the type of summarised evidence sought for public health decision making. Inaccessible...
The GRADE approach involved several key steps: 1. Identifying the clinical questions: The first step involved defining the clinical questions regarding TBS, that the recommendations were to address. This included specifying the population and outcomes of interest. 2. Assessing the quality of ...
reviews, this call often highlights the active involvement of healthcare professionals in the task of assessing the clinical relevance of identified interventions, which can be accomplished, for example, by following the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluating (GRADE) approach [...