| Dimensions of quality assessment |
|---|
| Authors/year | Methodology | Reporting of participant characteristics | Reporting of self-care | Total score |
|---|
| Allen et al. 2008 | 2 (2,4) | 3 (6,7,9) | 2 (10,12) | 7 |
| Andrews et al. 2013 | 1 (4) | 1 (5) | 1 (11) | 3 |
| Bin et al. 2012 (1) | 3 (1,2,4) | 4 (5,6,8,9) | 2 (10,12) | 9 |
| Braley et al. 2015 | 1 (3) | 1(5) | 0 | 2 |
| Daley et al. 2009 | 2 (2,4) | 1 (5) | 3 (10,11,12) | 6 |
| Henry et al. 2013 | 0 | 1 (5) | 1 (11) | 1 |
| Homsey and O’Connell 2012 | 0 | 3 (6,8,9) | 2 (10,12) | 5 |
| Krakow et al. 2014 | 3 (2,3,4) | 5 (5,6,7,8,9) | 0 | 8 |
| Liu et al. 2016 | 1 (2) | 4 (5,6,8,9) | 0 | 5 |
| Morin et al. 2006 | 3 (2,4) | 4 (5,6,8,9) | 3 (10,11,12) | 10 |
| Petrov et al. 2014 | 1 (4) | 5 (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) | 0 | 6 |
| Rosenthal et al. 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sánchez-Ortuño et al. 2009 | 2 (2,4) | 4 (5,6,8,9) | 3 (10,11,12) | 10 |
| Suen et al. 2008 | 0 | 0 | 2 (10,12) | 2 |
| Vallieries et al. 2014 | 1 (4) | 4 (5,6,8,9) | 0 | 6 |
| Wahner-Roedler et al. 2007 | 2 (3,4) | 2 (5,9) | 3 (10,11,12) | 7 |
| Yeung et al. 2014 | 1 (4) | 4 (5,6,8,9) | 2 (10,12) | 7 |
- Cheung et al. (2014) (17), Matthews et al. (2016) (73), Venn and Arber (2012), (18) and Venn et al. (2013), (14) were solely qualitative studies and were not assessed via the quality scoring system
