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Table 1 Quality assessment details

From: Effect of fecal microbiota transplant on symptoms of psychiatric disorders: a systematic review

Study

Blinding of outcome assessors for all outcomes

Blinding of participants and personnel for all outcomes

Incomplete outcome data for all outcomes

Selective outcome reporting

Sequence generation

Judgement

Comments

Judgement

Comments

Judgement

Judgement

Judgement

Comments

Cai 2019 [66]

High

Single outcome group, no blinding of any parties involved

High

Single case, no blinding of any parties involved.

Unclear

Unclear

High

Single case, no sequence generation

Tillmann 2019 [32]

Low

   

Low

Low

  

Kurokawa 2018 [48]

High

Outcome assessors not blinded.

High

Participants and personnel not blinded.

Low

Low

  

DePalma 2017 [43]

High

Investigators not blinded for behavioural and gastrointestinal motility tests.

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Xiao 2018 [29]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Mazzawi 2018 [46]

High

Outcomes assessors not blinded.

High

Participants and personnel not blinded.

Low

Low

Low

 

Xu 2018 [40]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

Low

Unclear

 

deClercq 2019 [67]

High

 

High

 

Unclear

Unclear

High

 

Huang 2019 [36]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

Low

Unclear

 

Huang 2019 [45]

High

Outcomes assessors not blinded.

High

Participants and personnel not blinded.

Low

Low

  

Li 2019 [21]

Unclear

 

Unclear

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Zhang 2019 [28]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

Low

Unclear

 

Xie 2019 [47]

High

Outcome assessors not blinded.

High

Participant and personnel not blinded.

Low

Low

  

Zhao 2019 [39]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Kelly 2016 [34]

Unclear

 

Unclear

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Mizuno 2017 [44]

Low

 

High

Participants and personnel not blinded.

Low

Low

  

Langgartner 2018 [25]

High

Outcome assessors, aside from histological scoring, were not blinded.

High

Personnel not blinded.

Low

Low

Low

 

Yang 2019 [68]

Unclear

 

Unclear

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Hata 2019 [42]

Unclear

 

Unclear

 

Low

Low

Unclear

 

Lv 2019 [22]

Unclear

 

Unclear

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Zheng 2016 [35]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Pearson-Leary 2019 [24]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Schmidt 2020 [33]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Johnsen 2020 [49]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Jiang 2020 [30]

High

Outcome assessors not blinded.

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Chen 2020 [69]

High

Outcome assessors not blinded.

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

 

Siopi 2020 [23]

Low

 

Low

 

Low

 

Low

 

Liu 2020 [37]

High

Outcome assessors not blinded.

Low

 

Low

Low

Low

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