Effectiveness of Resistance Training on Fatigue in Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials

Table 3

Synthesis of GRADE evidence of 15 to 35 sessions of a muscle strength training on fatigue levels.

Certainty evaluation							No. of patients		Absolute (CI 95%)	Certainty	Importance
No. of trials	Trial design	Risk of bias	Inconsistency	Indirect evidence	Imprecision	Risk of Publication	10 to 35 training sessions	Control group	Median 1.31 (-2.61; 5.01)	⨁⨁⨁Moderate	○8 = critical
10^a	Random trials	Not serious	Not serious	Not serious	Serious	Serious	435/654 (66.5 %)	300/654 (45.8 %)

^aCheng et al. [28]; Christensen et al. [42]; Grote et al. [34]; Hacker et al. [41]; Hacker et al. [40]; Rogers et al. [35]; Schmidt et al. [31]; Schmidt et al. [32]; Steindorf et al. [33]; Piraux et al. [38]. CI: confidence interval.