Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Child maltreatment prevention: a systematic review of reviews

Christopher Mikton & Alexander Butchart

Volume 87, Number 5, May 2009, 353-361

Table 2. Quality of the reviews on child maltreatment interventions found in a systematic review of reviews

Reviews by type	AMSTAR	No. of all publications included	No. of outcome evaluations included	No. control group	Risk factor
Reviews by type	score^a	No. of all publications included	No. of outcome evaluations included	%	%
Review of reviews
Barlow et al., 2006⁹	6	10	NA	NA	NA
Bull et al., 2004¹⁰	7	9	NA	NA	NA
Mean	6.5	9.5	NA	NA	NA
Meta-analyses
Davis & Gidycz, 2000¹¹	9	26	26	0	100
Geeraert et al., 2004¹²	6	42	42	22.5	22.5
Lundahl et al., 2006¹³	6	23	23	34.8	78.3
MacLeod & Nelson, 2000¹⁴	7	31	31	0	60
Sweet & Appelbaum, 2004¹⁵	7	67	61	8.2	57.4
Zwi et al., 2007¹⁶	10	16	16	0	100
Mean	7.5	34.2	33.2	10.9	69.7
Systematic reviews
Bilukha et al., 2005¹⁷	7	20	20	0	0
Elkan et al., 2000¹⁸	8	14	14	0	7.1
Higgins et al., 2006¹⁹	4	18	16	0	37.5
Holzer et al., 2006²⁰	4	20	18	0	66.7
Klevens, 2003²¹	6	4	4	50	50
MacIntyre & Carr, 2000²³	3	35	33	18.2	100
MacMillan, 2000²²	5	25	19	0	36.8
Mean	5.3	19.4	17.7	9.7	42.6
Comprehensive reviews
Chaffin & Schmidt, 2006²⁴	NA	23	19	0	5.3
Daro & McCurdy, 2007²⁵	NA	56	17	11.8	82.4
Hébert & Tourigny, 2004²⁶	NA	45	40	20	95
Kees & Bonner, 2005²⁷	NA	14	9	22.2	33.3
Krugman et al., 2007²⁸	NA	26	14	7.1	42.9
Mace, 2000²⁹	NA	10	5	20	80
MacMillan et al., 2007³⁰	NA	38	27	3.7	37
Olds et al., 2000³¹	NA	10	9	0	11.1
Olds et al., 2007³²	NA	31	31	0	29
Rubin et al., 2001³³	NA	45	24	8.7	26
Mean		29.8	19.5	9.4	44.2
Other
Chaffin, 2005³⁴	NA	13	13	0	0
Overall mean	6.3	23.1	21.3	9.5	48.3

AMSTAR, tool for the assessment of multiple systematic reviews ; NA, not applicable.
^a The maximum score on AMSTAR is 11 and scores of 0–4 indicate that the review is of low quality; 5–8, of moderate quality; and 9–11, of high quality.