Community-based educational interventions for prevention of type II diabetes: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 1 Quality assessment indicators of community-based studies in diabetes that had education as their intervention for the prevention of diabetes

Reference	Outcome	Attrition	Analysis technique	External validity				Overall study quality rating
Reference	Outcome	Attrition	Analysis technique	Program description	Qualification of intervention delivery agents	Costs and resources	Acceptability of the program	Overall study quality rating
Balagopal et al. [21]	Yes	Yes	Unclear	Yes	No	No	Yes	Medium
Ibrahim et al. [22]	Yes	Yes	Unclear	Yes	Yes	Unclear	Unclear	Medium
Rowan et al. [23]	Yes	No	Unclear	Yes	Yes	No	No	Low
Penn et al. [24]	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Medium
Katula et al. [25]	Yes	Yes	Unclear	Yes	No	No	Yes	Medium
Ackermann et al. [26]	No	No	Unclear	Yes	No	Unclear	No	Low
Ockene, et al. [27]	Yes	Yes	Unclear	Yes	Yes	Unclear	Yes	High
Daniel et al. [28]	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Unclear	Low
Raman et al. [29]	Yes	No	Unclear	Yes	Yes	Unclear	No	Low
Balagopal et al. [30]	Yes	Unclear	Yes	Yes	No	Unclear	Yes	Medium
Ramachandran et al. [31]	Yes	Unclear	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	High
Harati et al. [32]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	High
D.P.P.R Group [33]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Unclear	Yes	Yes	High
Davies et al. [34]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	High
Yin et al. [35]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Unclear	Yes	High
Pedley et al. [36]	Yes	Yes	Unclear	No	No	Unclear	Yes	Medium
Sranacharoenpong et al. [37]	Yes	No	Unclear	Yes	No	No	Yes	Medium
Soltero et al. [38]	Yes	Unclear	Unclear	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Medium
Soltero et al. [39]	No	Unclear	Unclear	Yes	Yes	Unclear	Yes	Low

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