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Table 1 Quality rating of included systematic reviews based on the AMSTAR tool

From: Common mental disorders in asylum seekers and refugees: umbrella review of prevalence and intervention studies

Study

1. Priori design provided

2. Duplicate study selection and data extraction

3. Comprehensive literature search

4. Status of publication an inclusion criteria

5. List of studies provided (included and excluded)

6. Characteristics of studies provided

7. Scientific quality of studies assessed

8. Scientific quality used appropriately in formulating conclusions

9. Appropriate methods used to combine study findings

10. Likelihood of publication bias assessed

11. Conflict of interest included

Overall quality rating

Prevalence

 Alemi et al. [10]

✘

✘

✘

✘

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔b

✘

✔

5/11 (moderate)

 Bogic et al. [17]

✔a

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✔

✔

✔b

✔

✔

10/11 (high)

 Bronstein and Montgomery [13]

✔

✘

✔

✔

✘

✔

✔

✔

✔b

✘

✘

7/11 (moderate)

 Fazel et al. [8]

✘

✘

✔

✔

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✘

✔

5/11 (moderate)

 Keyes [18]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

✘

2/11 (low)

 Lindert et al. [9]

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

3/11 (low)

 Mills et al. [14]

✘

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔b

✘

✔

6/11 (moderate)

 Mills et al. [15]

✘

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔b

✘

✘

5/11 (moderate)

 Quosh et al. [16]

✘

✘

✔

✔

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔b

✘

✘

4/11 (low)

 Robjant et al. [11]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

✔

3/11 (low)

 Slewa-Younan et al. [12]

✘

✔

✔

✘

✘

✔

✔

✔

✘

✘

✘

5/11 (moderate)

 Steel et al. [2]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✔

✔

✘

✘

✔

✔

✔

6/11 (moderate)

 Storm and Enberg [19]

✘

✔

✔

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔b

✘

✔

5/11 (moderate)

Intervention

 Crumlish and O’Rourke [21]

✘

✘

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔b

✘

✘

7/11 (moderate)

 Mc Farlane and Kaplan [22]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✔

✘

✔b

✘

✘

4/11 (low)

 Nickerson et al. [23]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✔

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

✘

3/11 (low)

 Nosè et al. [20]

✔

✘

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

10/11 (high)

 Palic and Elklit [24]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔b

✘

✔

8/11 (moderate)

 Patel et al. [25]

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

11/11 (high)

 Peltonen and Punamäki [26]

✘

✘

✘

✘

✘

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

✘

4/11 (low)

 Robjant and Fazel [27]

✘

✘

✔

✔

✘

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

✘

3/11 (low)

 Slobodin and de Jong [28]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

✔

3/11 (low)

 Sonne et al. [29]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔b

✘

✔

4/11 (low)

 Sullivan and Simonson [30]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔b

✘

✘

3/11 (low)

 Tyrer and Fazel [31]

✘

✘

✔

✔

✘

✔

✔

✔

✔b

✘

✔

7/11 (moderate)

 van Wyk and Schweitzer [32]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

✘

2/11 (low)

 Williams and Thompson [33]

✘

✘

✔

✘

✘

✔

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

3/11 (low)

  1. aA protocol is mentioned in the text, but it is not available/accessible
  2. bThe authors reported that between-study heterogeneity did not allow meta-analysis of results