Interventions/outcomes in studies for people with SSc
| SSc | Outcomes | ||||||||
| Microcirculation | Activities of daily living | Physical functioning | Mouth opening | Aerobic capacity | Self-efficacy | Gingival health | |||
| Interventions | Autogenic training/biofeedback | 47 | |||||||
| Education/counselling | 92* | 22 | |||||||
| Education | 93 | ||||||||
| Exercise/splints | 94† | ||||||||
| Exercise | 33 54 | 46 | 70 | 40 95† 44‡ | 57 | ||||
| Information | 22 | ||||||||
| Massage/mobilisation/exercise | 62 | ||||||||
| Mobilisation/exercises | 96 | ||||||||
| Oral hygiene/exercises | 40 | ||||||||
| Thermal treatment/exercises | 48 97 98 | ||||||||
| Thermal treatment/exercises/physiotherapy | 99 | ||||||||
To summarise and display descriptively the effects of the interventions on outcomes, we created a table in which we listed the interventions in rows and the outcomes in columns. Only studies which had defined a primary outcome are listed. We assigned the studies to the respective combinations of interventions and outcomes (numbers shown indicate the respective study, the colour represents whether the primary outcome was significant between groups (green), significant within groups (yellow) and not significant (red)).
*Intention-to-treat analysis not significant, per-protocol analysis significant.
†Only short-term effects.
‡Pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT), authors stated that it was underpowered.
SSc, systemic sclerosis.