A systematic review of interactive multimedia interventions to promote children’s communication with health professionals: implications for communicating with overweight children

Table 2 Exclusion hierarchy ¹ for elimination of full text papers at stage 5 of the search process

Exclusion criteria	No. of studies	and references
No children 7–11 years	0	²
No educational multimedia	3	[24–26]
Not recruited from active clinical treatment lists	11	[27–37]
Participants have no diagnosed health condition	2	[38, 39]
No comparison group	8	[40–47]
Descriptive paper, not an intervention study	5	[48–52]
Abstract/summary article	1	[53]

¹used throughout the search strategy.
²papers not including participants from the specified age range were systematically excluded through stages 1–4.

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