Systematic Review Quality Assessments for 35 Cold Housing and Health Studies

Isobel Braithwaite and Nazanin Rassa's dataset provides detailed Risk of Bias ratings supporting a systematic review on cold homes, energy efficiency, and respiratory health. The tables contain granular assessments for 35 included studies, broken down by individual bias domains and overall global scores. This work was part of a PhD thesis at University College London, with data last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze Risk of Bias (RoB) ratings across individual bias domains to compare methodological quality of the 35 included studies.
• Compare overall global assessment scores between observational studies (assessed with ROBINS-E) and randomized trials (assessed with RoB-2).
• Examine patterns in confounding bias ratings from the modified ROBINS-E approach developed for this project.
• Use the granular quality tables to inform meta-analytic weighting or sensitivity analyses for systematic reviews on housing and health.

Strengths

• Assessments conducted independently by two reviewers with disagreements resolved through consensus.
• Covers 35 studies included in the systematic review.
• Utilizes three standard quality appraisal tools (ROBINS-E, ROBINS-I, RoB-2) tailored to specific study designs.

Limitations

• Data is provided only in Microsoft Word (DOCX) format, limiting programmatic analysis.
• The 296.8 KB file size indicates a small, supplementary dataset focused solely on quality assessment.
• Sample data and column structure are unavailable, obscuring the exact data schema.

Provenance

Source

Isobel Braithwaite, University College London.

Collection Method

Independent quality assessment by two reviewers using ROBINS-E, ROBINS-I, and RoB-2 tools for a systematic review.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

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