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

Table 4

Synthesis of GRADE evidence of 36 or more sessions of 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	Greater than or equal to 33 training sessions	Control Group	Median 3.10 (0.71; 5.45)	⨁⨁⨁⨁High	8 = critical
5^a	Random trials	Not serious	Not serious	Not serious	Not serious	Serious	451/785 (57.4%)	288/785 (36.6%)

^aCourneya et al. [29, 30]; Courneya et al. [29, 30]; Segal et al. [37]; Segal et al. [36]; Santa Mina et al. [39]. CI: confidence interval.