R E S U L T S
Description of studies
See: Characteristics of included studies; Characteristics of
excluded studies; Characteristics of studies awaiting classification;
Characteristics of ongoing studies.
For more detailed description of each studies, please refer to the
Characteristics of included studies and Characteristics of excluded
studies tables.
Results of the search
1. 2010 update
For the 2010 update we found 210 citations of which we ordered
99 for close inspection. Of these we have included 23, for a total
of 44 studies now included in this review.
For results of any previous search, please refer to Appendix 2 and
Appendix 3.
Included studies
See Characteristics of included studies for descriptions of each
study. We have chosen to use a rather unconventional means of
tagging studies. This is usually done by using the key author name
accompanied by the date of the main publication, for example
’Smith 2005’. For this review we thought that using a different
and more informative convention would be valuable. We have
decided to include some details of the experiential intervention in
the study tag trying to succinctly describe length of intervention
where reported and whether the education was given one-to-one