Common errors while working on yoga intervention randomized controlled trials

Abstract

There is a steady rise in interest among researchers in exploring the effect of yoga on various disease conditions, improving holistic health in a healthy population. Innumerous studies have already highlighted the benefits, but integrating yoga into mainstream modern medicine remains a distant goal. The prominent reason is because of poor-quality trials in yoga research. Therefore, the significant vital issues which should be addressed to improve randomized controlled trials in yoga research are discussed.

Keywords

• alternative therapies
• checklist standardising the reporting of interventions for yoga
• complementary therapies
• consolidated standards of reporting trials
• risk of bias
• trial quality