From a4f1cba85cef4ec3d1961370c678a5d830800ad3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Harrer <42495969+MathiasHarrer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:10:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update variable_description.json

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 metadata/variable_description.json | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/metadata/variable_description.json b/metadata/variable_description.json
index f2e798b..bdafc5e 100644
--- a/metadata/variable_description.json
+++ b/metadata/variable_description.json
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 "recruitment": "Setting where participants were recuited (community, clinical, other)",
 "instrument": "This variable describes the instrument through which the relevant outcome was measured",
 "time": "The measurement point at which the outcome was obtained (e.g. post or follow-up)",
-"rob": "Risk of bias (low, some concerns, high)",
+"rob": "Risk of bias (low, some concerns, high). The overwhelming number of studies had a high risk of bias, so this variable was set to NA.",
 "time_weeks": "The measurement point at which the outcome was obtained, in weeks after randomization (set to NA if this information was not available)",
 "n_arm1": "Number of participants arm 1",
 "n_arm2": "Number of participants arm 2",