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Table 2 Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) quality assessment of quantitative studies

From: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander maternal and child health and wellbeing: a systematic search of programs and services in Australian primary health care settings

Publication

Selection bias

Study design

Confounders

Blinding

Data collection methods

Withdrawals and dropouts

Intervention integrity*

Analyses**

Total score

Jan, S., et. al. (2004) [21]

Moderate

Moderate

Weak

Moderate

Weak

Not applicable

(Q1) Can’t tell

(Q1) Individual

Moderate

(Q2) Can’t tell

(Q2) Organisation

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q3) Yes

(Q4) No

Carter, E. et al. (2004) [20]

Moderate

Moderate

Weak

Weak

Weak

Not applicable

(Q1) Can’t tell

(Q1) Individual

Weak

(Q2) Can’t tell

(Q2) Organisation

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q3) Yes

(Q4) No

NSW Health (2005) [18]

Moderate

Moderate

Weak

Weak

Weak

Weak

(Q1) 80-100%

(Q1) Individual

Weak

(Q2) Can’t tell

(Q2) Individual

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q3) Yes

(Q4) No

Power, C. et al. (2008) [28]

Weak

Weak

Weak

Weak

Weak

Weak

(Q1) 80-100%

(Q1) Individual

Weak

(Q2) Can’t tell

(Q2) Individual

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q3) Yes

(Q4) No

Panaretto, K. S. et al. (2007) [23]

Moderate

Moderate

Weak

Moderate

Weak

Weak

(Q1) 80-100%

(Q1) Individual

Weak

(Q2) No

(Q2) Individual

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q3) Yes

(Q4) No

 

Panaretto, K. et al. (2005) [24]

Moderate

Moderate

Weak

Moderate

Weak

Weak

(Q1) 80-100%

(Q1) Individual

Weak

(Q2) No

(Q2) Individual

(Q3) Yes

(Q3) Can’t tell

 

(Q4) No

Smith, R. M. et al. (2000) [16]

Moderate

Moderate

Weak

Moderate

Weak

Weak

(Q1) 80-100% (Q2) Can’t tell

(Q1) Community

Weak

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q2) Individual

(Q3) Yes

(Q4) No

Mackerras, D. (2001) [17]

Moderate

Moderate

Weak

Moderate

Weak

Weak

(Q1) Can’t tell

(Q1) Community

Weak

(Q2) No

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q2) Individual

(Q3) Yes

(Q4) No

Tursan d’Espaignet, E. et al. (2003) [25]

Moderate

Moderate

Weak

Moderate

Weak

Weak

(Q1) Can’t tell

(Q1) Community

Weak

(Q2) Can’t tell

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q2) Individual

 

(Q3) Yes

(Q4) No

Wong, R. et al. (2011) [31]

Moderate

Moderate

Weak

Moderate

Weak

Weak

(Q1) Can’t tell

(Q1) Individual

Weak

(Q2) Can’t tell

(Q2) Individual

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q3) Can’t tell

(Q4) No

  1. *Intervention Integrity.
  2. Q1) What percentage of participants received the allocated intervention or exposure of interest.
  3. Q2) Was the consistency of the intervention measured?
  4. Q3) Is it likely that participants received an unintended intervention (contamination or co-intervention) that may influence the result?
  5. **Analyses.
  6. Q1) Unit of allocation.
  7. Q2) Unit of analyses.
  8. Q3) Are the statistical methods appropriate for the study design?
  9. Q4) Is the analyses performed by intervention allocation status (i.e. intention to treat) rather than the actual intervention received?