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Table 3 Risk of bias (RoB) ratings for included studies

From: A systematic review of the health effects of yoga for people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia

RoB item

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Author (year)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Total

Eyre et al. (2016) [23], Yang et al. (2016) [24], & Eyre et al. (2017) [22]

1

1

1

1

0

1

1

0

1

0

1

8/11

Karydaki et al. (2017) [25]

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

1

0

0

3/11

Innes et al. (2012) [26]

1

N/A

N/A

1

1

1

0

0

1

0

1

6/9

Innes et al. (2016) [27]

1

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

1

0

1

8/11

Newberg et al. (2010) [28]

0

0

0

1

0

1

1

0

1

0

1

5/11

Fan et al. (2011) [29]

1

0

0

1

0

1

1

0

1

0

0

5/11

Litchke et al. (2012) [30] & Litchke et al. (2014) [31]

0

N/A

N/A

1

0

1

N/A

0

1

0

0

3/8

McCaffrey et al. (2014) [32]

0

N/A

N/A

1

1

1

N/A

0

1

0

1

5/8

Park et al. (2019) [33] & Park et al. (2020) [34]

1

1

0

0

1

1

1

0

1

0

1

7/11

Rodríguez Salazar et al. (2017) [35]

1

N/A

N/A

0

0

1

N/A

0

1

0

0

3/8

  1. Note. RoB risk of bias, 0 = no, 1 = yes, N/A not applicable. Higher scores indicated lower RoB. See Additional file 2 for description of RoB items. Total scores were adjusted to reflect non-applicable criteria