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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2014 Jul 2;47(2):220–232. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.03.012

Table 3.

Quality assessment of yoga intervention RCTs, n=151

Rating Random
group
allocation		 Group
allocation
concealed		 Baseline
similarity of
groups
examined		 Assessors blinded
to group		 Unexpected
imbalances
in
dropouts
assessed		 Authors
measured what
they said
they
would		 Missing
data
methods
Adequate description 52 (34%) 37 (24%) 97 (64%) 38 (25%) 21(14%) 88 (58%) 26 (17%)
Not adequate description 9 (6%) 13 (9%) 19 (13%) 15 (10%) 71(47%) 63 (42%) 76 (50%)
Information not available 90 (60%) 101(67%) 35 (23%) 98 (65%) 59 (39%) 0 (0%) 49 (33%)