“…Several studies reported means for several diagnoses combined together into broader categories, for example, anxiety disorders (De Cort et al, 2008;Lichtenstein-Vidne et al, 2017;Neng and Weck, 2015), depressive disorders (Duddu et al, 2003;Wittorf et al, 2012), and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (Krkovic et al, 2023;Samson et al, 2022;Wittorf et al, 2012;Zhu et al, 2020), thus limiting the feasible categories for network meta-analysis.…”