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Table 3 Quality assessment of the enrolled studies

From: Prevalence and policy of occupational violence against oral healthcare workers: systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Selection

Comparability

Outcome

Results

Representativeness of the sample

Sample size

Non-respondents

Ascertainment of the exposure (risk factor):

Comparability of subjects in different outcome groups on the basis of design or analysis

Assessment of outcome

Statistical test

Garvin and Sledge [6]

*

*

 

*

 

*

*

5/10

Pennington et al. [7]

*

*

*

*

 

*

*

6/10

Garbin et al. [5]

*

*

 

*

**

**

*

8/10

Steadman et al. [13]

*

*

 

*

**

**

*

8/10

Azodo et al. [1]

*

*

 

*

 

*

*

5/10

Premadasa et al. [14]

*

*

*

*

**

**

*

9/10

McCombs et al. [15]

*

*

 

*

 

**

*

6/10

Ullah et al. [16]

*

*

 

*

**

**

*

8/10

  1. Scale of studies (points): Very Good: 9–10, Good: 7–8, Satisfactory: 5–6, and Unsatisfactory: 0 to 4
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