Striving for Happily Ever After: Supportive Interventions for Youth Leaving Residential Placement. A Systematic Review of Reviews

Ref ID	881
First Author	L.S. Kvamme
Journal	CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH
Year Of Publishing	2022
URL	https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/camh.12507
Keywords	• Social care • Pre-specification • Disclosure • Risk of bias • Single reviewer • Low methodological quality • Low reporting quality • Protocols
Problem(s)	• Single reviewer / lack of double checking • Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided • Conflicts of interest or funding of included studies not assessed • Limited quality assessment or no risk of bias • Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review • No registered or published protocol • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
Number of systematic reviews included	8
Summary of Findings	From 8 systematic reviews of interventions for youth transitioning from Residential Placement indexed across nine bibliographic databases up to Feb 13 2019. Five of the eight systematic reviews were rated ‘critically low’ methodological quality (AMSTAR 2) and two systematic reviews were rated ‘low quality’. Common methodological quality deviations included: no clear statement that review methods were established before the authors conducted their literature search, study selection was not performed in duplicate, data extraction was not performed in duplicate, lists of excluded studies were not provided, and risk of bias was not completed.
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results?	N/A
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study?	Yes