| Ref ID | 1024 |
| First Author | A. Jung |
| Journal | PHYSICAL THERAPY & REHABILITATION JOURNAL |
| Year Of Publishing | 2024 |
| URL | https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article/104/7/pzae053/7639162?login=true |
| Keywords |
• Low methodological quality • Physiotherapy |
| Problem(s) |
• Meta-analyses and forest plots presented without considering risk of bias / quality • Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided • Conflicts of interest or funding of included studies not assessed • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • Failure to define clinically meaningful outcomes |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Germany |
| Checklists |
• AMSTAR 2 |
| Aim | To synthesise all evidence and assess the methodological quality (AMSTAR2) from systematic reviews (SRs) on the efficacy of physical therapy and exercise therapy, including interventional elements interventional elements explicitly aiming at physical activity promotion (PAP) in patients with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | from 14 included systematic reviews indexed across PubMed, Scopus, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from inception to February 28, 2023. The overall methodological quality of the included systematic reviews according to AMSTAR 2 was critically low in 5 reviews (36%). Most reviews did not provide a list of excluded studies (86%; 12/14) or did not assess the potential impact of Risk of Bias in individual studies on the results of the meta-analysis (if meta-analysis was performed) (79%; 11/14); only 1 review reported on the sources of funding for the included studies. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 14 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 495 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |