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. 2012 Nov 14;2012(11):CD006145. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006145.pub3

Oh 2008.

Study characteristics
Methods RCT; 2 group; stratified by treatment (ongoing or complete)
Participants 18 cancer patients with various diagnoses and at various stages of treatment
Interventions Exercise: Qigong, supervised groups, 1 to 2 sessions/week for 8 weeks, 90 mins/session and practice at home for 1 hour/day
Control: usual care, asked to refrain from joining a Qigong class
Outcomes Quality of life (including a fatigue sub scale)
Symptom experience
Inflammation
Notes Methodological quality score: 2
Main purpose of exercise: to improve quality of life, reduce treatment symptoms and inflammation
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk "Randomization was done by a computer program"
Allocation concealment (selection bias) High risk Not done
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
All outcomes High risk Blinding not done
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes Low risk All participants were accounted for
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk Fatigue outcome reported