Taso 2014.
Methods | Randomised controlled trial | |
Participants | Women with diagnosed stage I‐III breast cancer undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy Recruited from a medical centre Mean age 57.0 years N = 93 |
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Interventions | • Anusara yoga (yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditation), 8 weeks, twice weekly for 60 minutes • Wait‐list, usual care for 8 weeks |
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Outcomes | Depression (Profile of Mood States) at week 4, week 8 and week 12 Anxiety (Profile of Mood States) at week 4, week 8 and week 12 Fatigue (Brief Fatigue Inventory) at week 4, week 8 and week 12 |
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Notes | Unpublished means and standard deviations for the Profile of Mood States were provided by study authors upon request. | |
Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Low risk | "Computer‐generated numbers were used to randomly assign…" |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Low risk | "Randomization used opaque envelopes with group assignments, and personnel who had no involvement in the trial performed randomization. The envelopes were opened sequentially in the order of assignment during recruitment, with the names and registration numbers of the participants written on the covers." |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | "this study did not apply an ideal double‐blind approach" |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | "this study did not apply an ideal double‐blind approach" |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | No attrition |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | No protocol available but no hint of selective reporting |
Other bias | Low risk | No hint of other bias |