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Table 1 Evaluation of Cochran’s six sources of bias in studies from 2012 to 2017 of weight loss among women who have given birth

From: Lifestyle interventions to maternal weight loss after birth: a systematic review

 

Random Sequence generation

Allocation concealment

Blinding of participants and personnel

Blinding of outcome assessment

Incomplete outcome data

Selective reporting

Other bias

Phelan et al. [19]

(+)

(+)

(+)

(+)

(+)

(+)

(+)

Herring et al. [25]

(+)

(+)

(?)

(?)

(+)

(+)

(+)

Herring et al. [26]

(+)

(-)

(?)

(-)

(+)

(+)

(+)

Gilmore et al. [27]

(+)

(-)

(-)

(-)

(+)

(+)

(+)

Tripette et al. [28]

(+)

(-)

(-)

(-)

(?)

(+)

(+)

Maturi et al. [29]

(+)

(+)

(?)

(-)

(?)

(+)

(+)

Albright et al. [30]

(+)

(+)

(?)

(+)

(+)

(+)

(+)

Colleran and Lovelady [31]

(+)

(+)

(-)

(-)

(-)

(+)

(+)