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Table 1 Characteristics of included studies

From: Patient-reported outcomes in Gaucher’s disease: a systematic review

Author (Year)

(Reference)

Study design

Disease types (1, 2 and 3)

Sample size

PROM

Quality assessment

Verderese C L (1993) [41]

Pre- and post-intervention

1

12

Self-made questionnaire

***

Small sample size and lack of inclusion and exclusion criteria; Measures not validated and reliability tested

Damiano A M (1998) [20]

Cross-sectional

1

212

SF-36

*****

Hayes R P (1998) [13]

Qualitative interview

1

16

-

****

Insufficient quotes provided to prove the theme

Masek B J (1999) [15]

Pre- and post-intervention

1

25

SF-36;

SCL-90-R;

AAC

*****

Pastores G M (2003) [39]

Cross-sectional

1

55

SF-36

***

lack of inclusion and exclusion criteria; Not reported with the survey method

Giraldo P (2005) [14]

Pre- and post-intervention

1

69

SF-36

*****

Packman W (2006) [16]

Cross-sectional

NA

28

MMPI-2

*****

Elstein D (2007) [25]

RCT

1

36

SF-36

****

Open-label clinical trial

Weinreb N J (2007) [42]

Pre- and post-intervention

1

32

SF-36

****

> 20% drop-out rate

Packman W (2010) [6]

Qualitative description

NA

28

-

****

Unclear methods for qualitative data analysis

Deegan P B (2011) [30]

Cross-sectional

1&3

100

EQ-5D;

BPI

*****

Samuels N (2012) [45]

Pre- and post-intervention

NA

12

SF-12;

FACIT-F;

***

Small sample size and lack of inclusion and exclusion criteria; Failure to control confounders

Deroma L (2013) [28]

Cohort

1

34

SWB

****

Measures not validated and reliability tested

Oliveira F L (2013) [32]

Cross-sectional

1&3

21

SF-36

*****

Kamusheva M (2013) [31]

Cross-sectional

NA

3

SF-36

**

Small sample size and lack of inclusion and exclusion criteria; Failure to control confounders; Not reported with the survey method

Medrano-Engay B (2014) [27]

RCT

1

8

SF-36

**

Not properly randomized

Open-label clinical trial

> 20% drop-out rate

Giraldo P (2016) [17]

Cross-sectional

1

108

SF-36;

VAS for pain

*****

Devigili G (2017) [38]

Cross-sectional

1

25

NPSI

****

lack of inclusion and exclusion criteria;

Cerón-Rodríguez M (2018) [43]

Pre- and post-intervention

1

5

LPPS

***

Small sample size and lack of inclusion and exclusion criteria; Risk of bias in parental proxy responses

Remor E (2018) [7]

Cross-sectional

NA

20

PedsQL 4.0

****

Risk of bias in parental proxy responses;

Lukina E (2019) [26]

RCT

1

26

SF-36;

FFS

***

Open-label clinical trial;

> 20% drop-out rate

Roca-Espiau M (2019) [33]

Cross-sectional

1,2&3

25

SF-36

*****

Wilke M (2019) [40]

Cross-sectional

1

23

MoCA;

ESS;

BDI;

UMSARS;

RBD;

*****

Alioto A G (2020) [34]

Cross-sectional

1

32

PedsQL 4.0;

BASC-2

*****

Cohen D (2020) [29]

Cohort

NA

48

EQ-5D;

VAS for pain;

HHS

*****

Dinur T (2020) [46]

Cross-sectional

1

192

GD1-PROM

*****

Tantawy, A. A. G (2020) [18]

Cross-sectional

1&3

24

BDI

*****

Li HM* (2020) [35]

Cross-sectional

1

22

SF-36

*****

De Mello R a F(2021) [36]

Cross-sectional

NA

18

SF-36

*****

Hu J (2021) [19]

Cross-sectional

NA

5

EQ-5D

***

Small sample size and lack of inclusion and exclusion criteria; Risk of bias in parental proxy responses;

Qi X (2021) [37]

Cross-sectional

NA

40

SSRS;

PSQI;

SF-36

*****

Elstein D (2022) [21]

Validation

1&3

124

GD-1 PROM;

SF-36

*****

Lu H * (2022) [44]

Pre- and post-intervention

NA

6

SF-36

***

Small sample size and lack of inclusion and exclusion criteria; Risk of bias in parental proxy responses;

  1. * Chinese article; NA: Not reported in study
  2. Abbreviations: SF-36: 36-item Short Form Health Survey; SCL-90-R: Symptom Checklist-90R; ACC: Adult Activities Checklist; MMPI-2: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; EQ-5D: EuroQol Five Dimensions Questionnaire; BPI: Brief Pain Inventory; SF-12: The Short-Form Health Survey-12 items; FACIT-F: Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue measure; SWB: Subjective Well-Being; VAS: visual analogue scale ;NPSI: Neuropathic Pain Symptom Inventory; LPPS: The Lansky Play-Performance Scale; PedsQL 4.0: Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory; FFS: Fatigue Severity Scale; MoCA: Montreal Cognitive assessment; ESS: Epworth sleep Scale; BDI: Beck Depression Inventory; UMSARS: Unified Multiple System Atrophy Rating Scale ; RBD: REM sleep behavior disorder; BASC-2: Behavior Assessment System for Children; HHS: Harris Hip Score; GD1-PROM: Gaucher disease type 1-specific patient-reported outcome measures; SSRS: Social Support Rating Scale; PSQI: Pittsburgh sleep quality Index