Trial reportPloS one2021
The contributions of focused attention and open monitoring in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for affective disturbances: A 3-armed randomized dismantling trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01831362 (Dismantling Mindfulness), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Dismantling Mindfulness: Contributions of Attention vs. Acceptance
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic Review for the Medical Applications of Meditation in Randomized Controlled Trials.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Impact of warm mindfulness on emotion regulation: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2023Trial
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- Reconceptualizing the relationship between anxiety, mindfulness, and cognitive control.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Review
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Clinical Practice: A Systematic Review of Neurocognitive Outcomes and Applications for Mental Health and Well-Being.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Influence of mindfulness meditation on intracranial EEG parameters in epileptic and non-epileptic brain areas.Epilepsy & behavior : E&B · 2024Article
- 10-Week Trajectories of Candidate Psychological Processes Differentially Predict Mental Health Gains from Online Dyadic versus Mindfulness Interventions: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Going beyond Mindfulness: How Concentration and Tranquility Commonly Co-Arising with Mindfulness Account for Mental Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Self-judgment dissected: A computational modeling analysis of self-referential processing and its relationship to trait mindfulness facets and depression symptoms.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- A common factors perspective on mindfulness-based interventions.Nature reviews psychology · 2022Article
- Defining and measuring meditation-related adverse effects in mindfulness-based programs.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Article
- From Self-Esteem to Selflessness: An Evidence (Gap) Map of Self-Related Processes as Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Based Interventions.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveMindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) includes a combination of focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM) meditation practices. The aim of this study was to assess both short- and long-term between- and within-group differences in affective disturbance among FA, OM and their combination (MBCT) in the context of a randomized controlled trial.
methodOne hundred and four participants with mild to severe depression and anxiety were randomized into one of three 8-week interventions: MBCT (n = 32), FA (n = 36) and OM (n = 36). Outcome measures included the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS), and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS). Mixed effects regression models were used to assess differential treatment effects during treatment, post-treatment (8 weeks) and long-term (20 weeks). The Reliable Change Index (RCI) was used to translate statistical findings into clinically meaningful improvements or deteriorations.
resultsAll treatments demonstrated medium to large improvements (ds = 0.42-1.65) for almost all outcomes. While all treatments were largely comparable in their effects at post-treatment (week 8), the treatments showed meaningful differences in rapidity of response and pattern of deteriorations. FA showed the fastest rate of improvement and the fewest deteriorations on stress, anxiety and depression during treatment, but a loss of treatment-related gains and lasting deteriorations in depression at week 20. OM showed the slowest rate of improvement and lost treatment-related gains for anxiety, resulting in higher anxiety in OM at week 20 than MBCT (d = 0.40) and FA (d = 0.36), though these differences did not reach statistical significance after correcting for multiple comparisons (p's = .06). MBCT and OM showed deteriorations in stress, anxiety and depression at multiple timepoints during treatment, with lasting deteriorations in stress and depression. MBCT showed the most favorable pattern for long-term treatment of depression.
conclusionsFA, OM and MBCT show different patterns of response for different dimensions of affective disturbance.
trial registrationThis trial is registered at (v NCT01831362); www.clinicaltrials.gov.
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