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Date:
Question:
Setting:
Bibliography:
Quality assessment № of patients Effect Quality Importance
№ of studies Study design Risk of bias Inconsistency Indirectness Imprecision Other considerations START Psychological Intervention Treatment as Usual (TAU) Relative
(95% CI)
Absolute
(95% CI)
Carer Mood (follow up: 24 months; assessed with: Binarised MCTS score on any item to be 2 or more)
1
randomised trials
not serious
not serious
not serious
serious a
none
27/84 (32.1%)
10/40 (25.0%)
OR 0.65
(0.31 to 1.36)
72 fewer per 1,000
(from 62 more to 156 fewer)

MODERATE
IMPORTANT

CI: Confidence interval; OR: Odds ratio

Explanations

a. The 95% confidence interval straddled the null estimate.