Table 3.

Search parameters

Databases searched via EBSCO host 1900–2021: ‐ American Psychiatric Association PsycInfo ‐ MEDLINE ‐ AMED ‐ The Allied and Complementary Medicine Database ‐ CINAHL Complete

Search terms: 1. AB yoga AND 2. AB (depression or depressive disorder or depressive symptoms or major depressive disorder or depressed) OR (anxiety disorders or anxiety or generalized anxiety disorder) OR social anxiety disorder OR specific phobia OR panic* OR (OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder) OR (posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD or posttraumatic stress disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder) OR (anorexia nervosa or anorexia or anorexic) OR (bulimia nervosa or bulimic or bulimia) OR (binge eating disorder) AND 3. AB (cbt OR cognitive behavior* OR cognitive behavior*) OR (problem‐solving therapy OR PST) OR (interpersonal therapy OR IPT OR interpersonal psychotherapy) OR (psychodynamic therapy) OR (psychoeducation) OR (acceptance and commitment therapy or act) OR (dialectical behavior therapy or DBT or dialectical behavior therapy) OR (emotion‐focused therapy or EFT or emotionally focused therapy) OR (EMDR or eye movement desensitization therapy or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) OR (family therapy or family counseling or family intervention or family systems therapy) OR (solution‐focused brief therapy or SFBT or solution‐focused therapy) OR (MBSR or mindfulness‐based stress reduction) OR (metacognitive therapy or metacognition or attention training technique) OR (exposure therapy) OR (trauma‐focused cognitive behavioral therapy or TF‐CBT or trauma‐focused CBT) OR (mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy or MBCT) OR schema therapy)

Clinical trials registries searched: ‐ Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) ‐ International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number Registry (ISRCTN) ‐ Clinicaltrials.gov

Limits: No limits implemented in search strategy.

PICOS:

‐ Population: Adults aged 18 years of over (any gender) diagnosed with a depressive, anxiety, trauma‐related, or eating disorder using any recognized diagnostic criteria and/or a standardized diagnostic assessment/tool by a clinician

‐ Intervention: Studies that examined hatha yoga as an integrated or adjunct part of a Level or Level 2 evidence‐based psychological intervention.

‐ Comparison: No restrictions on comparison.

‐ Outcomes: No restrictions on outcome variables.

‐ Study types: Any study which described a cohort trial, or protocol thereof, with the relevant interventions and populations.

Exclusion: 1. Studies included samples who were aged under 18 years or not diagnosed with a depressive, anxiety, trauma‐related eating disorder. 2. Studies that did not describe an intervention (i.e., review paper) or did not assess a cohort (i.e., case studies). 3. Articles published in languages other than English*.

^*Efforts were made to contact authors of all studies published in languages other than English to request translated versions.