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Monitoring (any means of observation, supervision, keeping under review, measuring or testing at intervals) vs No monitoring: Leaving the study early
- Population
- People with serious mental illness (all included participants had schizophrenia); majority aged 18 to 65 years per NIMH 1987, or with diagnosed schizophrenia, schizophrenia-like disorders, bipolar disorder, or serious affective disorder
- Intervention
- Monitoring (any means of observation, supervision, keeping under review, measuring or testing at intervals)
- Comparison
- No monitoring
- Outcome
- Leaving the study early
Monitoring (any means of observation, supervision, keeping under… showed no clear difference in leaving the study early compared with no monitoring (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Monitoring (any means of observation, supervision, keeping under review, measuring or testing at intervals) vs No monitoring Leaving the study early · People with serious mental illness (all included participants had schizophrenia); majority aged 18 to 65 years per… Monitoring (any means of observation, supervision, keeping under… showed no clear difference in leaving the study early compared with no monitoring (moderate certainty). Oral health education (advice and training) for people with serious mental illness (2016) · Cochrane All outcomes | RR 1.07 [1.00, 1.14] | 1 study · 1682 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral health education (advice and training) for people with serious mental illness 2016 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2015-11 | Not listed | Not assessed |
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.