Table 4 CASP quality assessment for included studies
Vig et al. (2010) [14] | Carrion (2010) [15] | Chapple et al. (2011) [16] | Frey et al. (2013) [17] | Meeker et al. (2014) [18] | Waldrop et al. (2015)a [19] | Lin et al. (2019) [20] | Pini et al. (2020) [22] | Spencer et al. (2020) [21] | |
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Section A: Are the results valid? | |||||||||
1. Was there a clear statement of the aims of the research? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2. Is a qualitative methodology appropriate? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Is it worth continuing? | |||||||||
3. Was the research design appropriate to address the aims of the research? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
4. Was the recruitment strategy appropriate to the aims of the research? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
5. Was the data collected in a way that addressed the research issue? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
6. Has the relationship between researcher and participants been adequately considered? | Yes | Yes | Not described | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not described | Yes |
Section B: What are the results? | |||||||||
7. Have the ethical issues been taken into consideration? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
8. Was the data analysis sufficiently rigorous? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
9. Is there a clear statement of findings? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Section C: Will the results help locally? | |||||||||
10. How valuable is the research?b | ✔✔ | ✔✔ | ✔ | ✔✔ | ✔✔ | ✔✔ | ✔✔ | ✔✔ | ✔✔ |