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ESTIMATED HANDS-ON TIME30–45 min
You are ready to continue when
The included-study list, PRISMA final count and extraction matrix agree, and every empty cell is marked “not reported” or “unclear”.
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Key guidance
- Start from the outputs you exported at the end of Stage 2: included-study list, PRISMA counts, appraisal results and the extraction matrix.
- Check that the number of rows in the matrix equals the number of included studies in the PRISMA diagram. Resolve any mismatch before analysis.
- Add study-level coding columns you will need for description and grouping: year, country/region, setting, design, sample, intervention/technology, outcome type.
- Use controlled values (e.g. a fixed list of design labels) so the data can be counted and charted without manual clean-up.
- Verify a sample (e.g. 10–20%) of extracted entries against the full texts, or ask a co-author to do so, and record the result.
Needs revision
Weak: “Design” column contains “survey”, “questionnaire study”, “Survey-based”, “quant”.
Stronger
Strong: “Design” uses one controlled list — Experimental · Quasi-experimental · Survey · Case study · Qualitative · Mixed methods · Design science — with a codebook definition for each.
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