Impact of education and provision of complementary feeding on growth and morbidity in children less than 2 years of age in developing countries: a systematic review

Table 3 Quality assessment of trials on complementary food with or without education

	Quality Assessment					Summary of Findings
				Directness		No of events
No of studies	Design	Limitations	Consistency	Generalizability to population of interest	Generalizability to intervention of interest	Intervention	Control	RR or SMD (95% CI)
Respiratory infections: Moderate outcome-specific quality
3 studies [20, 22, 26]	RCT	Random effect model was used because of heterogeneity	One study suggest benefit			375	448	RR 0.67 (0.49, 0.91)
*Diarrhea/vomiting: Moderate outcome-specific quality*
3 studies [20, 22, 26]	RCT	Random effect model was used because of heterogeneity	None of the study suggest benefit			424	488	RR 0.75 (0.42, 1.35)
*Fever: low outcome-specific quality*
2 studies [17, 22]	RCT	Random effect model was used because of heterogeneity	None of the study suggest benefit			195	187	RR 0.89 ( 0.41, 1.90)

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