Trial reportBehaviour research and therapy2018
Dismantling Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Creation and validation of 8-week focused attention and open monitoring interventions within a 3-armed randomized controlled trial.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mindfulness enhances cognitive functioning: a meta-analysis of 111 randomized controlled trials.Health psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Meta-analytic evidence that mindfulness training alters resting state default mode network connectivity.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of a 4Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2024Trial
- Is a brief mindfulness ecological momentary intervention more efficacious than a self-monitoring app for social anxiety disorder? A randomized controlled trial.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2024Trial
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- Attentional control may be modifiable with Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Prevent Suicide.Behaviour research and therapy · 2021Trial
- Mindfulness interventions improve momentary and trait measures of attentional control: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2021Trial
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- Psychological mechanisms driving stress resilience in mindfulness training: A randomized controlled trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2019Trial
- Mindfulness and progressive muscle relaxation as standardized session-introduction in individual therapy: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of clinical psychology · 2019Trial
- How mindfulness training promotes positive emotions: Dismantling acceptance skills training in two randomized controlled trials.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2018Trial
- Distinguishing the Attentional Mechanisms of Distinct Mindfulness States: A Computational Modeling Comparison of Focused Attention and Open Monitoring.Mindfulness · 2026Article
- Neural dynamics of mindfulness training: A longitudinal EEG network analysis of focused attention and open monitoring meditation.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Reconceptualizing the relationship between anxiety, mindfulness, and cognitive control.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Review
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- The individual and sequential effect of focused attention and open monitoring meditation on mindfulness skills.PloS one · 2025Article
- Distinct Mindfulness States Produce Dissociable Effects on Neural Markers of Emotion Processing: Evidence From the Late Positive Potential.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- Target mechanisms of mindfulness-based programmes and practices: a scoping review.BMJ mental health · 2024Article
- Parsing state mindfulness effects on neurobehavioral markers of cognitive control: A within-subject comparison of focused attention and open monitoring.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Mindfulness-based neurofeedback: A systematic review of EEG and fMRI studies.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundWhile mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) employ two distinct practices, focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM), the integrated delivery of these practices in MBIs precludes understanding of their practice-specific effects or mechanisms of action. The purpose of this study is to isolate hypothesized active ingredients and practice-specific mechanistic target engagement by creating structurally equivalent interventions that differ only by the active ingredient (meditation practice) offered and to test whether the hypothesized components differentially engage the mechanistic targets that they are purported to engage.
methodsParticipants were intended to be representative of American meditators and had mild to severe affective disturbances. Measures of structural equivalence included participant-level (sample characteristics), treatment-level (program structure and duration, program materials, class size, attendance, homework compliance, etc.), and instructor-level variables (training, ratings and adherence/fidelity). Measures of differential validity included analysis of program materials and verification of differential mechanistic target engagement (cognitive and affective skills and beliefs about meditation acquired by participants after the 8-week training).
resultsThe results indicate successful creation of structurally equivalent FA and OM programs that were matched on participant-level, treatment-level, and instructor-level variables. The interventions also differed as expected with respect to program materials as well as mechanistic targets engaged (skills and beliefs acquired).
conclusionsThese validated 8-week FA and OM training programs can be applied in future research to assess practice-specific effects of meditation.
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