Can a little bit of mindfulness do you good? A systematic review and meta-analyses of unguided mindfulness-based self-help interventions

Over the last decade there has been an explosion of interest in mindfulness-based self-help (MBSH) interventions. While widely available and extensively promoted, there is little consensus on their impact in public health or healthcare contexts. We present a systematic review and meta-analyses of 83...

Celý popis

Uložené v:
Podrobná bibliografia
Vydané v:Clinical psychology review Ročník 89; s. 102078
Hlavní autori: Taylor, Heather, Strauss, Clara, Cavanagh, Kate
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: United States Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2021
Predmet:
Anxiety
Anxiety - therapy
Anxiety Disorders
Depression
Depression - therapy
Humans
Mindfulness
Quality of Life
Self-help
Stress
Wellbeing
Wellbeing
Depression
Self-help
Anxiety
Mindfulness
Stress
ISSN:0272-7358, 1873-7811, 1873-7811
On-line prístup:Získať plný text
Tagy: Pridať tag
Žiadne tagy, Buďte prvý, kto otaguje tento záznam!
Popis
Shrnutí:Over the last decade there has been an explosion of interest in mindfulness-based self-help (MBSH) interventions. While widely available and extensively promoted, there is little consensus on their impact in public health or healthcare contexts. We present a systematic review and meta-analyses of 83 randomized controlled trials, comparing unguided MBSH to control conditions on outcomes of depression, mindfulness, anxiety, stress and/or wellbeing/ quality of life. A random effects model was used to compute post-intervention, between-groups effect sizes for each outcome. MBSH demonstrated small, statistically significant effects at post-interventions for outcomes of depression (g = −0.23), mindfulness (g = 0.37) anxiety (g = −0.25), stress (g = −0.41) and wellbeing/ quality of life (g = 0.34). Significant effects were retained at follow-up for mindfulness, stress and wellbeing/ quality of life but not for depression or anxiety. Planned moderator analyses demonstrated significantly larger effects of MBSH when compared to inactive, versus active-control conditions on all outcomes except wellbeing/ quality of life, and non-digital MBSH interventions demonstrated significantly greater effects on depression, mindfulness and wellbeing/ quality of life outcomes than digitally-delivered MBSH. When studies that utilised samples selected for mental and physical health-related difficulties were respectively compared to studies that utilised unselected samples, no significant moderation effects were observed. In sum, these findings provide evidence for the effectiveness of unguided MBSH in public health settings and the practical, access-related implications of this are discussed. •A meta-analysis of 83 RCTs testing unguided mindfulness-based self-help (MBSH) is reported.•Outcomes include depression, anxiety, stress, mindfulness and wellbeing.•Small, statistically significant main effects were found for all outcomes at post-intervention.•Strengths and limitations of the research field are summarised.•Findings support the effectiveness of MBSH and invite further research and development.
Bibliografia:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
ObjectType-Review-3
content type line 23
ObjectType-Undefined-4
ISSN:0272-7358
1873-7811
1873-7811
DOI:10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102078