How long does a mindfulness-based stress reduction program need to be? A review of class contact hours and effect sizes for psychological distress.

By J. Carmody, Ruth A. Baer. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Open, aware, and active: contextual approaches as an emerging trend in the behavioral and cognitive therapies. (2011, background): “There appears to be no relationship between time in mindfulness training and effect sizes (Carmody & Baer 2009).”
Evolving Conceptions of Mindfulness in Clinical Settings (2009, background): “How might mindfulness best be described and presented to patients so as to make it maximally approachable for the widest range of people (Carmody & Baer, 2009)?”
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness (2012, background): “), variable amount of meditation time at home (45 min/day; averages reported of 246 min/week), plus an all-day 6-h class during the 6 week (in some cases half-day) (Carmody and Baer, 2009).”
Putting the ‘app’ in Happiness: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Smartphone-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Enhance Wellbeing (2016, background): “Remarkably, mindfulness interventions as brief as three short sessions have yielded positive outcomes (Harnett et al. 2010; Zeidan et al. 2010; see also Carmody and Baer 2009), and under certain conditions—instant gains have been reported (Ussher et al. 2014).”
Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Health: A Review of Empirical Studies (2011, background): “Carmody and Baer (2009) examined class contact hours and effect sizes of psychological outcomes reported in published trials of MBSR, and did not find a systematic relationship between the two variables.”
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation: A Meta-Analysis (2012, background): “Carmody and Baer (2009) reported an effect of MBSR on stress reduction in nonclinical populations almost similar to ours (d00.”
Mindfulness-based therapy: a comprehensive meta-analysis. (2013, background): “…attendance (de Vibe et al., 2012), and the clinical andmindfulness training and practical experience of the therapists delivering MBT (Carmody & Baer, 2009; Crane, Barnhofer, Hargus, Amarasinghe, & Winder, 2010; Davidson, 2010; Fjorback et al., 2011; Piron, 2001; Pradhan et al., 2007; Segal,…”
Mindfulness Interventions. (2017, neutral): “…for mindfulness intervention dose–response relationships (either by experimentally manipulating the intervention dose or by relating measures of class attendance and home mindfulness practice duration with outcomes), which is an area that is in need of more research (see Carmody & Baer 2009).”
Mindfulness-based stress reduction for healthy individuals: A meta-analysis. (2015, result): “Previous mindfulness-based intervention studies and meta-analyses with mixed clinical and nonclinical populations found contradictory results regarding treatment duration [26,30,41,43–45], and when a significant moderation was found, it was very weak (e.”
Mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for psychological health and well-being in nonclinical samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2020, methodology): “For example, Chiesa and Serretti (2009) conducted a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of MBSR in studies (N=10) carried out in ‘healthy people’ and reported a significant reduction in stress (t=21.”