| Design | Number | Papers |
| Randomized controlled trial (RCT) | 5 | Zhao et al. (2017), Obling et al. (2017), Cereda et al. (2018), Kabata et al. (2015), Hatao et al. (2017) | Randomized trial (RT) | 6 | Takesue et al. (2015), Okada et al. (2017), De Luis et al. (2015), Sánchez-Lara et al. (2014), Gavazzi et al. (2016), Vidal et al. (2016) | Longitudinal study | 1 | Vashi et al. (2014) | Observational study | 1 | Brown et al. (2017) | Interview | 1 | Cohen et al. (2017) | Questionnaire | 1 | Santarpia and Bozzetti (2018) | Cohort study | 1 | Shenep et al. (2017) | Single/double/multicenter study | 1 | Senesse et al. (2015) | Mixed method | 13 | Wang et al. (2015), Bowrey et al. (2015), Wang et al. (2018), Yu et al. (2017), Jin et al. (2018), Ding et al. (2015), Yang et al. (2015), Li et al. (2015), Cotogni et al. (2017), Kobayashi et al. (2017), Miyata et al. (2017), Li et al. (2015), Mendivil et al. (2017) | Total | 30 | |
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