Meditation Based Therapies—A Systematic Review and Some Critical Observations
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Identification and Selection
2.2. Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Non-clinical Populations
3.2. Clinical Populations with Physical Illness
3.3. Clinical Populations with Psychiatric Disorders
Author | Participants | Intervention | Control group | Follow-up | Measures | Results |
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2010 | 58% female | 8 weekly, 2-hour sessions and optional monthly meditation classed; plus medication tapper | 18 months | Reduction of risk for unstable remitters in MBCT (p = 0.01) and Medication (p = 0.03) vs. Placebo | ||
2010 | Wait list | Wait list preM = 34.78 SD = 7.66; PostM = 33.09 SD = 7.78; 2 month follow-up M = 32.38 SD = 9.07 | ||||
2003 | Education program groups designed to match time spent and attention by a team of professional facilitator | End of treatment, 2 and 4 months after treatment | SF36 Subscales | Education preM = 31.4, SD = 16.7; postM = 40.8, SD = 18.7;4 month follow-up M = 42.4, SD = 22.5 |
3.4. Quality of the Included Randomised Controlled Trials
3.4.1. Compliance
3.4.2. Limitations
4. Discussion
5. Recommendations for Further Research
6. Standardized Training
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
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