Gyereh, Josbert
Shukla, Meenakshi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9447-5987
Article History
Accepted: 10 March 2023
First Online: 13 April 2023
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: This is a systematic review which relies on secondary sources such as published or unpublished research works. Therefore, since no human or animal populations are directly involved in systematic review papers, no ethical approval is required. This notwithstanding, the review was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The Effective Public Health Practice Project’s quality assessment tool for quantitative studies and the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme’s Randomised Controlled Trial Standard Checklist were used to assess the quality of the studies involved in the review, while the Cochrane risk of bias assessment tool and the GRADE technique were used to assess risk of bias and evaluate evidence quality, respectively. Further, this systematic review has been registered on the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews database (PROSPERO) under the reference number CRD42021296409.
: Informed consent was not required because data from previously published studies in which informed consent was obtained was retrieved and analysed.