The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group Editorial Base at The University of Nottingham, UK, produces and maintains standard text for use in the Methods section of their reviews. We have used this text as the basis of what appears here and adapted it as required. The authors would like to thank Clive Adams (CEA) for his assistance and advice in terms of developing this protocol and Mays Mohsen for peer review.

As this is part of a family of yoga intervention reviews and as such only the interventions/objectives are different, we have used the text from the background of a previously published versions also written by the same core group of review authors (JB and DV).