Review Article
The Physiological and Biochemical Outcomes Associated with a Reflexology Treatment: A Systematic Review
Table 2
Risk of bias (ROB) analysis.
| Study | Type of study | Adequate sequence generation | Allocation concealment | Adequate blinding-participant | Adequate blinding- clinician | Adequate blinding-outcome assessor | Incomplete outcome data assessment | Selective reporting bias | Other bias | Risk of bias |
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Jones et al., 2013 [30]
| RCT | Low | Low | Low | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Hodgson and Lafferty, 2012 [31] | Pilot | Unclear | Unclear | High | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | Unclear | Jones et al., 2012 [3] | RCT | Low | Low | Low | High | Low | Unclear | Low | Low | Low | Ruiz-Padial et al., 2012 [32] | RCT | Unclear | Unclear | Low | High | Unclear | Low | Low | Low | Unclear | Sliz et al., 2012 [26] | RCT | Low | Low | High | High | Unclear | Low | Low | Low | Low | Hughes et al., 2011 [25] | Pilot | Low | Low | Low | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Lu et al., 2011 [33] | RCT | Unclear | Unclear | Low | Unclear | Unclear | Low | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Moeini et al., 2011 [34] | RCT | Low | High | High | High | High | Unclear | Low | Low | Unclear | Green et al., 2010 [35] | RCT | Low | Low | High | High | Unclear | Low | Low | Unclear | Low | Holt et al., 2009 [36] | RCT | Low | Low | Low | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Mackereth et al., 2009 [37] | RCT | Low | Low | High | High | Unclear | High | Low | Unclear | Unclear | Hodgson and Andersen, 2008 [38] | RCT | High | High | High | High | Low | Unclear | High | Unclear | High | Gunnarsdottir and Jonsdottir, 2007 [39] | Pilot | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | High | High | Unclear | Low | Low | Unclear |
Mc Vicar et al.,2007 [40] | Pilot | Unclear | Unclear | High | High | High | High | High | Low | High | Wilkinson et al., 2006 [41] | RCT | Unclear | Unclear | High | High | Unclear | High | High | High | High | Mollart, 2003 [10] | ā | Unclear | High | High | High | High | High | High | Unclear | High | Frankel, 1997 [42] | Pilot | Unclear | Low | Unclear | High | Unclear | Low | Low | Low | Unclear |
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