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Table 3 Methodological Quality of the Included Studies

From: The impact of social, national and community-based health insurance on health care utilization for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Author

Year

Design

Selection bias

Confounders

Blinding

Data collection

Withdrawal and drop outs

Intervention integrity

Analysis

Score

Araya, R., et al.

2006

3

1

1

2

1

N/A

N/A

1

MODERATE

Asawavichienjinda, T., et al.

2003

3

1

1

1

3

N/A

N/A

1

WEAK

Chung, W., et al.

2013

3

1

3

1

2

N/A

N/A

1

WEAK

Ding, X., et al.

2018

3

1

1

1

1

N/A

N/A

1

MODERATE

El-Sayed, A.M., et al.

2015

3

2

1

1

1

N/A

N/A

1

MODERATE

Feng, Y., et al.

2012

3

1

3

1

2

N/A

N/A

2

WEAK

He, P., et al.

2017

2

1

1

1

1

1

N/A

1

STRONG

Hirunrassamee, S., et al.

2009

3

1

2

2

2

N/A

N/A

2

MODERATE

Hwang, J.E., et al.

2018

3

1

1

2

2

N/A

N/A

1

MODERATE

Jian, W., et al.

2009

2

2

1

2

2

N/A

N/A

1

STRONG

Wang, Z.-M., et al.

2015

3

2

2

2

1

N/A

N/A

2

MODERATE

Xu, J., et al.

2018

2

2

1

2

1

N/A

N/A

1

STRONG

Xue, Q., et al.

2014

3

1

1

2

1

N/A

N/A

1

MODERATE

Yu-tao, X., et al.

2007

3

1

1

2

1

N/A

N/A

1

MODERATE

Yu-Tao, X., et al.

2007

3

1

1

2

1

N/A

N/A

1

MODERATE

Zhang, X.-Q., et al.

2015

3

2

1

2

1

N/A

N/A

1

MODERATE

Zhou, Y., et al.

2017

2

2

1

3

1

N/A

N/A

1

STRONG

Zhou, Y., et al.

2014

3

2

1

2

1

N/A

N/A

1

MODERATE

  1. Papers were assessed using the Effective Public Health Practice Project’s (EPHPP) Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative studies [27]
  2. 1 = Strong; 2 = Moderate; 3 = Weak
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