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SynthesisClinical psychology review2017

Meditation and yoga for posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials.

Autumn M Gallegos, Hugh F Crean, Wilfred R Pigeon, Kathi L Heffner

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Synthesis in Clinical psychology review, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Who cites it

74 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Autumn M GallegosDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States. Electronic address: Autumn_Gallegos@urmc.rochester.edu.
Hugh F CreanSchool of Nursing, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua VA Medical Center, United States.
Wilfred R PigeonDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua VA Medical Center, United States.
Kathi L HeffnerDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States; School of Nursing, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States.

Funding

Institutional Career Development CoreKL2TR001999 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI XIAO, JIN · 2016 to 2024
$5.2M
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR001999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic and debilitating disorder that affects the lives of 7-8% of adults in the U.S. Although several interventions demonstrate clinical effectiveness for treating PTSD, many patients continue to have residual symptoms and ask for a variety of treatment options. Complementary health approaches, such as meditation and yoga, hold promise for treating symptoms of PTSD. This meta-analysis evaluates the effect size (ES) of yoga and meditation on PTSD outcomes in adult patients. We also examined whether the intervention type, PTSD outcome measure, study population, sample size, or control condition moderated the effects of complementary approaches on PTSD outcomes. The studies included were 19 randomized control trials with data on 1173 participants. A random effects model yielded a statistically significant ES in the small to medium range (ES=-0.39, p<0.001, 95% CI [-0.57, -0.22]). There were no appreciable differences between intervention types, study population, outcome measures, or control condition. There was, however, a marginally significant higher ES for sample size≤30 (ES=-0.78, k=5). These findings suggest that meditation and yoga are promising complementary approaches in the treatment of PTSD among adults and warrant further study.

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YogaHumansMeditationOutcome Assessment, Health CareRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticComplementary healthMeditationPTSDTraumatic stressYoga

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PMID29100863
PMCPMC5939561

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