School based interventions versus family based interventions in the treatment of childhood obesity- a systematic review

Table 4 Methodological quality of included studies

	CASP questions	Jiang et al. [67]	Garipagaoglu et al. [58]	Janicki et al.[50]	Kalarchian et al. [51]	Golan et al. [59]	Golley et al. [68]	Sacher et al. [56]
1	Did the study ask clearly Focussed Question?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2	Was this a RCT and it is appropriate so?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
3	Were the participants appropriately allocated to intervention and control group?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
4	Participants, staffs and Intervention Personnel blind to participants?	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes (single blinded)	Yes
5	Were all the participants who entered the trial are accounted for its conclusion?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
6	Were all the participants in all groups followed up and data collected?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
7	Did the study have enough participants to minimise the chance to play?	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
8	How the results presented and what are the main results?	Parent, Based, Intervention	Group, Based, Intervention	Parent, Only, Intervention	Family based intervention- short term.	The participant were not enough	SS, P + DA is effective	HighlySS, <0.0001
9	How precise are results?	SS <0.001	SS <0.05	SS Result	SS <0.0001	SS result for parent only group	Yes	Yes
10	Were all the outcomes considered so that result can be applied?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes But BMI not reported	yes
	Total:	9/ 10	9/ 10	8/ 10	9/ 10	8/ 10	10/ 10	10/ 10

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