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
10a
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.