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

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
Interventions • Anusara yoga (yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditation), 8 weeks, twice weekly for 60 minutes
• Wait‐list, usual care for 8 weeks
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
Notes Unpublished means and standard deviations for the Profile of Mood States were provided by study authors upon request.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