Journal: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Article Title: Culturally appropriate health education for people in ethnic minority groups with type 2 diabetes mellitus

doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006424.pub3

Figure Lengend Snippet: Rosal 2011

Article Snippet: Study details Run‐in period: none Study terminated before regular end: no Publication details Language of publication: English Funding: National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Grant Publication status: peer‐reviewed journal Stated aim of study Quote from publication: "To test whether a theory‐based, literacy and culturally tailored self‐management intervention, Latinos en Control, improves glycaemic control among low‐income Latinos with type 2 diabetes" Notes Study author provided extra details on results data for BP and lipids Risk of bias Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Quote from publication: "A stratified randomisation scheme was created using Stata's ralloc procedure" "Patients from the same family were assigned to the same study condition" Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Comment: not mentioned Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) Objective outcomes High risk Quote from publication: "Due to nature of assignment, we could not blind participants PCPs" Comment: participants unlikely to have been blinded Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) Subjective outcomes High risk Quote from publication: "Due to nature of assignment, we could not blind participants PCPs" Comment: participants unlikely to have been blinded Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) Lab tests: Lipids, HBA1C Low risk Quote from publication: "Trained bilingual and bicultural research staff blinded to the study condition conducted assessments" Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) Subjective outcomes High risk Comment: participants not blinded Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) Objective outcomes Low risk Comment: intention‐to‐treat analysis used (all 252 participants randomly assigned were included in analysis) Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) Subjective outcomes Low risk Comment: intention‐to‐treat analysis used (all 252 participants randomly assigned were included in analysis) Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Comment: protocol not seen, and several secondary outcomes from abstract not reported Other bias Low risk Comment: none Open in a separate window Rosal 2011 .

Techniques: Construct, Activity Assay, Sequencing, Selection

Journal: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Article Title: Methods to increase response to postal and electronic questionnaires

doi: 10.1002/14651858.MR000008.pub5

Figure Lengend Snippet: Price 2014

Article Snippet: Methods , Random allocation: computer generated (STATA ralloc command) , .

Techniques: Generated, Chocolate, Sequencing