Relationship of cash transfers with risk of overweight and obesity in children and adults: a systematic review

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Newcastle–Ottawa Scale assessment of studies

a. Cross-sectional studies
REFERENCE	COUNTRY	REPRESENTATIVENESS				COMPARABILITY	OUTCOME			TOTAL STARS
REFERENCE	COUNTRY	representativeness of the sample	sample size	non-respondents	ascertainment of exposure	comparability of outcome groups based upon design or analysis	assessment of outcome		statistical test	TOTAL STARS
13	Brazil	⋆	0	0	⋆	⋆	0		0	3
14	Brazil	⋆	0	0	⋆	0	0		⋆	3
15	Brazil	⋆	0	0	⋆	0	0		⋆	3
16	Brazil	⋆	0	0	⋆	⋆⋆	0		⋆	4
24	Peru	⋆	0	0	⋆	⋆⋆	0		⋆	5
32	Colombia	⋆	0	⋆	⋆	⋆⋆	0		⋆	6
29	Mexico	⋆	0	0	0	⋆⋆	0		⋆	4
19	Dominican Republic	0	0	0	⋆	⋆	0		0	2
21	South Africa	⋆	0	0	⋆	0	0		0	2
31	Canada	⋆	0	0	0	⋆	⋆		⋆	4
20	Japan	⋆	0	⋆	⋆	⋆⋆	⋆		⋆	7
b. Cohort studies
REFERENCE	COUNTRY	SELECTION				COMPARABILITY	OUTCOME			TOTAL STARS
REFERENCE	COUNTRY	representativeness of exposed cohort	selection of non-exposed cohort	ascertainment of exposure	demonstration that outcome of interest not present at start of sutdy	comparability of cohorts based upon design or analysis	assessment of outcome	follow-up long enough for outcome to occur	adequacy of follow-up of cohorts	TOTAL STARS
22	Mexico	⋆	⋆	⋆	0	0	0	⋆	0	4
30	Mexico	⋆	⋆	⋆	⋆	⋆⋆	0	⋆	⋆	8
27	Mexico	⋆	⋆	⋆	⋆	0	0	⋆	⋆	6
25	Mexico	0	⋆	0	0	0	0	⋆	0	2
26	Mexico	⋆	⋆	⋆	⋆	⋆⋆	0	⋆	⋆	8
28	Colombia	⋆	⋆	⋆	⋆	⋆⋆	0	⋆	0	7
17	Colombia	⋆	0	⋆	⋆	⋆⋆	0	⋆	0	6
18	Peru	⋆	⋆	⋆	⋆	⋆	0	⋆	0	6
23	USA	⋆	⋆	0	⋆	⋆	0	⋆	0	5

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