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Appraisal of Studies of High-Quality. Quality scoring, particularly for observational research, is contestable (Greenland & X’Xxxxxx, 2001); however a decision was made to exclude studies with poor methodological quality that threatened the validity of findings. High-quality papers were defined as those that scored ≥50% on questions assessing selection bias. Selection bias was chosen as the primary indicator of high-quality because it examines biases in the representativeness of study samples, selection of controls in case-control studies, characteristics of participants and non-participants, and biases regarding differential loss-to-follow-up in cohort studies. Due to widespread variations in the terminologies used to measure domestic violence (see Chapter 1 section 1.5), assessing quality in relation to measurement biases was not considered to be a good indicator of the methodological strength of studies. A cut off score of 50% was selected as papers scoring below this figure were considered to possess too many biases, which would threaten the validity of findings (e.
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