Evaluation of intervention systematic reviews on chronic non-communicable diseases and lifestyle risk factors in low-middle income countries: meta-research
The results demonstrated that the writing of recent scientific articles meets most of the PRISMA 2020 criteria, with a checklist being the most used tool. Interventions and exposure were also very well reported, with the TIDieR checklist not being cited in any study as a guiding tool. AMSTAR-2 revealed a methodological approach of varied quality, mainly low and critically low. The GRADE approach classified the certainty of the evidence as generally very low. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage adherence to these approaches to improve the methodological quality in SR studies on chronic NCDs and behavioral factors in LMICs.
Authors
- Maria Inês da Rosa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6124-2538)
- Antônio José Grande (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7182-075X)
- Giulianna Faypher Morena Vieira da Silva
- Maria Laura Rodrigues Uggioni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8883-287X)
- Leonardo Roever (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7517-5548)
- Beatriz Hadassa Silva Cano
- Gustavo Dias Bottari
- Eduarda Letícia Balbinot
Institutions
- Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (BR)
- Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (BR)
- Lebanese American University (LB)
- Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (BR)
- Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (BR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Published
- 2025-04-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02501-9
- Primary Topic
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00