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Table 5 Quality assessment of studies included in the quantitative synthesis (N = 10). These studies examined correlates of wellbeing or mental health among YPLHIV in SSA $

From: Informing the measurement of wellbeing among young people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa for policy evaluations: a mixed-methods systematic review

Author year

Sampling (max score 4)

Measurement (max score 8)

Reporting (max score 8)

Total score

Quality

 

Generalisability

Sample size

Psychometric properties of scale

Scale administration

Description of analysis

Reporting of regression analysis

Adjustment of confounders

Maximum score = 20

 

(Abebe et al., 2019)

1

2

1

3

1

3

1

12

Medium

(Dow et al., 2016)

1

2

1

2

1

1

0

8

Low

(Earnshaw et al., 2018)

1

1

0

1

2

3

1

9

Low

(Gaitho et al., 2018)

1

1

0

1

1

4

2

10

High

(Gentz et al., 2017)

1

0

1

2

0

1

2

7

Low

(Kim et al., 2015)

1

2

3

2

2

3

2

15

Medium

(Mbalinda et al., 2015)

1

2

2

1

1

3

2

12

Medium

(Mutumba et al., 2017)

1

2

2

2

1

3

1

12

Medium

(Okawa et al., 2018)

1

2

1

0

1

1

1

7

Low

(Woollett et al., 2017)

1

2

1

1

0

0

0

5

Low

  1. $ = The quality assessment tool that was applied was adapted from the Cochrane guidance on assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies (Higgins and Green, 2011)