Treadmill Training in Multiple Sclerosis: Can Body Weight Support or Robot Assistance Provide Added Value? A Systematic Review

Table 2

Overview of the scores (after agreement between the two researchers, Cohen’s Kappa: 0.77 (SD 0.13, good agreement)) of the methodological checklist. The mean quality score of the studies is 31.5/48 (SD 5.8).

	Beer et al. (2008) [29] (True-exp)	Vaney et al. (2011) [30] (True-exp)	Schwartz et al. (2011) [31] (True-exp)	Lo and Triche (2008) [32](True- exp)	Van den Berg et al. (2006) [33]; (True-exp)	Newman et al. (2007) [34] (Pre-exp)	Pilutti et al. (2011) [35] (Pre-exp)	Giesser et al. (2007) [36] (Pre-exp)	Mean scores
Study question (/2)	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	1.88
Study design (/14)	12	10	12	10	12	8	6	6	9.50
Subjects (/8)	5	6	4	6	4	4	4	5	4.75
Intervention (/6)	3	4	4	3	3	2	2	1	2.75
Outcomes (/6)	6	5	6	5	5	3	3	5	4.75
Analysis (/10)	8	8	7	6	4	6	7	2	6.00
Recommendations (/2)	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	1.88
Total quality score (/48)	38 (79%)	37 (77%)	37 (77%)	34 (71%)	30 (62.5%)	27 (56%)	26 (54%)	23 (48%)	31.5 (SD5.8) (66%)
Cohen’s Kappa between two raters	0.83 (VG)	0.74 (G)	0.83 (VG)	0.85 (VG)	0.51 (M)	0.68 (G)	0.92 (VG)	0.78 (G)	0.77 (SD0.13) (G)

exp: experimental, SD: standard deviation, VG: very good agreement, G: good agreement, M: moderate agreement.