SynthesisClinical interventions in aging2017
Mindfulness training for psychological stress in family caregivers of persons with dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Synthesis in Clinical interventions in aging, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05245305 (The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program on Mental Status and Care Burden of Psychotic Patients' Families), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program on Mental Status and Care Burden of Psychotic Patients' Families
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- A comprehensive meta-review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on nonpharmacological interventions for informal dementia caregivers.BMC geriatrics · 2020Pooled it
- Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of the Feasibility of a Mobile App-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Caregiver Stress.The Gerontologist · 2025Trial
- Impact of pre-existing subclinical depressive symptoms on the mental health of older adults during the COVID-19-related confinements: assessment of moderating factors including meditation training.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Four-Week Mentalizing Imagery Therapy for Family Dementia Caregivers: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Neural Circuit Changes.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2022Trial
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- Mindfulness and Care Experience in Family Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia.Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports · 2023Article
- Development of a Home-Based Stress Management Toolkit for Dementia Caring Dyads: Protocol for a Pilot Intervention Development and Feasibility Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Easing the burden of dementia caregiving: Protocol development for a telephone-delivered mindfulness intervention for rural, African American families.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
- How family dementia caregivers perceive benefits of a 4-week Mentalizing Imagery Therapy program: a pilot study.Professional psychology, research and practice · 2022Article
- Exploring the Impacts of COVID-19 Public Health Measures on Community-Dwelling People Living With Dementia and Their Family Caregivers: A Longitudinal, Qualitative Study.Journal of family nursing · 2022Article
- Factor analysis of the relationship between PANSS score and family burden of patients with schizophrenia.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Mentalizing imagery therapy for depressed family dementia caregivers: Feasibility, clinical outcomes and brain connectivity changes.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2021Article
- Supporting Family Caregivers With Technology for Dementia Home Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Innovation in aging · 2019Article
- Mentalizing Imagery Therapy Mobile App to Enhance the Mood of Family Dementia Caregivers: Feasibility and Limited Efficacy Testing.JMIR aging · 2019Article
- Grief, Mindfulness and Neural Predictors of Improvement in Family Dementia Caregivers.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- A novel two-day intervention reduces stress in caregivers of persons with dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2018Article
- A Pilot Mixed-Methods Study of a Virtual Reality-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Live-In Migrant Dementia Caregivers in Israel.Sage open agingArticle
- Feasibility of a Telephone-Delivered Mindfulness Intervention for Informal Caregivers of Rural-Dwelling African Americans With Dementia.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- A mindfulness-based multicomponent caregiver intervention (PAACC): objectives, study design, and cohort description.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)Article
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Abstract
Caring for a relative with dementia is extremely challenging; conventional interventions may not be highly effective or easily available on some occasions. This study aimed to explore the efficacy of mindfulness training in improving stress-related outcomes in family caregivers of people with dementia using a meta-analytic review. We searched randomized controlled trials (RCT) through April 2017 from five electronic databases, and assessed the risk of bias using the Cochrane Collaboration tool. Seven RCTs were included in our review. Mindfulness interventions showed significant effects of improvement in depression (standardized mean difference: -0.58, [95% CI: -0.79 to -0.37]), perceived stress (-0.33, [-0.57 to -0.10]), and mental health-related quality of life (0.38 [0.14 to 0.63]) at 8 weeks post-treatment. Pooled evidence did not show a significant advantage of mindfulness training compared with control conditions in the alleviation of caregiver burden or anxiety. Future large-scale and rigorously designed trials are needed to confirm our findings. Clinicians may consider the mindfulness program as a promising alternative to conventional interventions.
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