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Table 1 Quality assessment of evidence at the category level

From: Systematic review of strategies to increase use of oral rehydration solution at the household level

 

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

Relative Risk

95% Confidence Interval

Strategy: Co-promotion of Zinc and ORS (Moderate/low outcome specific quality)

4

RCT/cRCT

None

3 of 4 studies showed beneficial effect; heterogeneity in meta-analysis

No major limitations

No major limitations

5345

3895

1.82

[1.17, 2.85]

Strategy: Social marketing and mass media (Low outcome specific quality)

3

Observational

Variation in study design and quality

All show beneficial effect; heterogeneity in meta-analysis; not statistically significant

No major limitations

No major limitations

1530

804

2.05

[0.78, 5.42]

  1. cRCT: cluster-randomized controlled trial
  2. ORS: Oral rehydration solution