| Methods |
RCT |
| Participants |
Psychiatric hospital outpatients and hospital day‐patients
Mean age 35.5 (range 19 ‐ 58)
64% women
N = 83 |
| Interventions |
1. Group running 3 times a week for 12 weeks, plus routine care (n = 48)
2. Control group: routine care only (n = 35) |
| Outcomes |
1. Beck Depression Inventory
2. State‐Trait Anxiety Inventory |
| Notes |
Outcome assessment not blind
Analysis not intention‐to‐treat |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not stated |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Low risk |
Adequate (categorised by Lawlor and Hopker) |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
participants |
Unclear risk |
Participants not blind, unclear risk |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
those delivering intervention |
Unclear risk |
Those delivering the intervention were not blind, but the influence on bias is unclear |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
outcome assessors |
High risk |
Self‐reported outcomes |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
High risk |
A total of 18 dropped out, leaving 65 for analyses |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Unclear risk |
All the prespecified outcomes stated in the paper were reported, but no protocol |
| Other bias |
Unclear risk |
unclear |
