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. 2017 Jan 3;2017(1):CD010802. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010802.pub2

Chakrabarty 2015.

Methods Randomised controlled trial
Participants Women with diagnosed stage I‐III breast cancer undergoing daily adjuvant radiation therapy for 6 weeks after completing surgery and chemotherapy
Recruited from a cancer hospital and research centre
Mean age 43.6 years
N = 160
Interventions • Pranayama (breathing techniques), 6 weeks, twice daily, 5 days a week for 20 minutes
• Routine care for 6 weeks
Outcomes Fatigue (Cancer Fatigue Scale), week 6
Notes Cancer Fatigue Scale prepared by researchers; validation study not published
Unpublished means and standard deviations for Cancer Fatigue Scale were provided by study authors upon request.
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Block randomisation
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Concealed numbered envelopes
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk No information on blinding
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information on blinding
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk No attrition
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Cancer Fatigue Scale prepared by researchers; validation study not published
Other bias Unclear risk Cancer Fatigue Scale prepared by researchers; validation study not published