Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2012
A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction to manage affective symptoms and improve quality of life in gay men living with HIV.
Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 64 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Interventions for Symptom Management in Older Patients With HAND
A Feasibility Study of an Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Group to Enhance Coping and Resilience in Family Medicine Patients Living With Common Mental Illness
Who cites it
64 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 176 citations in OpenAlex.
- A synthesis of RCTs on psychological interventions fostering strengths and virtues: Evidence from 21 systematic reviews.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of psychosocial interventions to reduce affective symptoms in sexual and gender minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- The benefits of psychosocial interventions for mental health in men who have sex with men living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Mindfulness-based interventions for substance use disorders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions to improve mental wellbeing.Nature human behaviour · 2021Pooled it
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Adults Living with HIV/AIDS: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2019Pooled it
- The Benefits of Psychosocial Interventions for Mental Health in People Living with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2018Pooled it
- Social and behavioral interventions for improving quality of life of HIV infected people receiving antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2017Pooled it
- Psychosocial group interventions to improve psychological well-being in adults living with HIV.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Symptom Management in Older Individuals with HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder.AIDS and behavior · 2024Trial
- Resting-state neural signatures of depressive symptoms in acute HIV.Journal of neurovirology · 2020Trial
- A randomized, controlled trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction in HIV infection.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2018Trial
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- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Women with Overweight or Obesity: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2017Trial
- Phone-delivered mindfulness training to promote medication adherence and reduce sexual risk behavior among persons living with HIV: Design and methods.Contemporary clinical trials · 2017Trial
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction for overweight/obese women with and without polycystic ovary syndrome: design and methods of a pilot randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2015Trial
- Therapygenetics in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: do genes have an impact on therapy-induced change in real-life positive affective experiences?Translational psychiatry · 2014Trial
- A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for HIV-Associated Chronic Pain.Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.)Trial
- Optimizing an App-Based Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention for Stimulant Use Among Sexual Minority Men Living with HIV: Protocol for a Community-Engaged Research Approach and Hybrid-Experimental Design.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Sexual Minority Men Living with HIV's Interest in Yoga vs. MBSR as an Adjunct to an App-Based Positive Affect Intervention: A Focus Group Study.Current research in complementary & alternative medicine · 2025Article
4 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
unlabelledTo determine whether MBSR groups would help gay men living with HIV improve psychosocial functioning and increase mindfulness compared to treatment-as-usual (TAU).
methods117 participants were randomized 2:1 to MBSR or TAU. No new psychosocial or psychopharmacological interventions were initiated within 2 months of baseline. Standardized questionnaires were administered pre-, postintervention and at 6 months. An intent-to-treat analysis found significant benefits of MBSR: at post-intervention and 6 months follow up, MBSR participants had significantly lower avoidance in IES and higher positive affect compared to controls. MBSR participants developed more mindfulness as measured by the Toronto Mindfulness Scale (TMS) including both TMS subscales, curiosity and decentering, at 8-week and 6 months. For the sample as a whole, increase in mindfulness was significantly correlated with reduction in avoidance, higher positive affect and improvement in depression at 6 months. MBSR has specific and clinically meaningful effects in this population.
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