Mindfulness-based interventions for psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

By Simon B. Goldberg, Raymond P. Tucker, Preston A. Greene, Richard J. Davidson, B. Wampold, D. Kearney, Tracy L. Simpson. Clinical Psychology Review, 2018

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Despite widespread scientific and popular interest in mindfulness-based interventions, questions regarding the empirical status of these treatments remain. We sought to examine the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions for clinical populations on disorder-specific symptoms. To address the question of relative efficacy, we coded the strength of the comparison group into five categories: no treatment, minimal treatment, non-specific active control, specific active control, and evidence-based treatment. A total of 142 non-overlapping samples and 12,005 participants were included. At post-treatment, mindfulness-based interventions were superior to no treatment (d=0.55), minimal treatment (d=0.37), non-specific active controls (d=0.35), and specific active controls (d=0.23). Mindfulness conditions did not differ from evidence-based treatments (d=-0.004). At follow-up, mindfulness-based interventions were superior to no treatment conditions (d=0.50), non-specific active controls (d=0.52), and specific active controls (d=0.29). Mindfulness conditions did not differ from minimal treatment conditions (d=0.38) and evidence-based treatments (d=0.09). Effects on specific disorder subgroups showed the most consistent evidence in support of mindfulness for depression, pain conditions, smoking, and addictive disorders. Results support the notion that mindfulness-based interventions hold promise as evidence-based treatments.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Effects of Length of Mindfulness Practice on Mindfulness, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress: a Randomized Controlled Experiment (2020, background): “Consistent with this, MBPs have been found to increase mindfulness and to have beneficial effects on a range of outcomes, including depression, stress, anxiety, and wellbeing (e.g. Goldberg et al. 2018; Strohmaier 2020).”
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, positive): “…to be effective for the reduction of symptoms associated with common psychiatric disorders reporting moderate effects on depression, ranging from g=.040 to g=0.59 (Hedman-Lagerlof, Hedman-Lagerlof, & Ost, 2018; Goldberg et al., 2018) and a large effect on anxiety, g=0.89 (Goldberg et al., 2018).”
Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, background): “We focus on the effects of meditation practice because of its wellestablished positive impact on human functioning more generally (Goldberg et al., 2018; Good et al., 2016) and a consistently powerful effect of LKM on self- compassion in particular (Galante et al., 2014; Kreplin et al., 2018).”