Table 3 Evaluation of the quality of included studies according to the Critical Appraisal Skill Programme (CASP) Qualitative Checklist [48]
Study name & date | CASP Quality Assessment Score Categories | Total score | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Validity | Results | Value of research | |||||||||
Clear aims | Appropriate qual methodology | Appropriate research design | Appropriate recruitment | Appropriate data collection | Considered reflexivity | Ethics addressed | Rigor data analysis | Clear findings | |||
Beck 1992 [27] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
Blanchard 2009 [51] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
Boath 2013 [52] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
Edhborg 2005 [53] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
Evans 2012 [54] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
Gardner 2014 [55] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
Hanley 2006 [56] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
Highet 2014 [28] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
Jackson 2020 [57] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 |
Keefe 2016 [58] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 | ||||||
Keefe 2019 [59] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
Letourneau 2007 [60] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
Mauthner 1995 [61] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
Mauthner 1998 [62] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
Montgomery 2009 [63] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
Morrow 2008 [64] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||
Nahas 1999 [65] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
O’Mahony 2012 [66] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 |
Raymond 2009 [67] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
Recto 2020 [68] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 | |||
Roseth 2011 [69] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
Scrandis 2005 [70] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 | |||||
Shafiei 2015 [71] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 9 | |
Tang 2016 [72] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
Taylor 2021 [18] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 |
Templeton 2003 [73] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 | ||||
Wittkowski 2012 [74] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 8 | ||