Do Mindfulness Meditation Participants Do Their Homework? And Does It Make a Difference? A Review of the Empirical Evidence

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Open, aware, and active: contextual approaches as an emerging trend in the behavioral and cognitive therapies. (2011, background): “About half of the studies have failed to find a significant relationship between at-home meditation homework compliance and clinical outcomes (Vettese et al. 2009).”
Mindfulness Practice, Rumination and Clinical Outcome in Mindfulness-Based Treatment (2014, background): “For an extensive review of the mixed findings involving the relative impact of mindfulness practice in MBCT and MBSR, see Vettese et al. (2009).”
Effects of Length of Mindfulness Practice on Mindfulness, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress: a Randomized Controlled Experiment (2020, background): “However, a limitation of previous research is that amount of mindfulness practice that participants have engaged in over the course of an MBP was often either not measured at all or not measured accurately enough (Vettese et al. 2009).”
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation: A Meta-Analysis (2012, background): “In a review of 24 empirical MBSR studies in clinical and nonclinical contexts, Vettese et al. (2009) found that almost half of those investigations could not find an association between the participants’ actual amount of meditation practice and outcomes.”