Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) may be one approach, but its effects are difficult to discern because few studies have conducted randomized controlled trials with an active control group and

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps

• A Randomized, Controlled Pilot Study of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Healthy Older Adults (2022) · doi

  Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) may be one approach, but its effects are difficult to discern because few studies have conducted randomized controlled trials with an active control group and blinded examiners.

  Keywords: mindfulness based stress reduction mbsr approach effects difficult discern conducted randomized controlled trials active control
• Daily Mindful Responding Mediates the Effect of Meditation Practice on Stress and Mood: The Role of Practice Duration and Adherence (2017) · doi

  OBJECTIVE: Although meditation practice is an important component of many mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), empirical findings of its effects on psychological functioning are mixed and the mechanisms for the effects remain unclear.

  Keywords: effects objective meditation practice important component mindfulness based interventions mbis empirical psychological functioning mixed mechanisms
• Mindfulness meditation among South African psychologists: a pathway to ‘being’ amid existential suffering in contemporary South Africa (2024) · doi

  The findings contribute to the limited literature related to the value of psychologists’ mindfulness practices in relation to the way in which they manage their own responses to clients, as well as the potential for mindfulness practices to help clients manage presenting trauma responses.

  Keywords: mindfulness practices manage responses clients contribute limited literature related value psychologists relation well potential help
• Effects of a Focused Breathing Mindfulness Exercise on Attention, Memory, and Mood: The Importance of Task Characteristics (2018) · doi

  Previous research has shown that long-term mindfulness training has beneficial effects on cognitive functioning and emotional regulation, but results are mixed regarding single mindfulness exercises, especially on attention and memory tasks.

  Keywords: mindfulness previous long term training beneficial effects cognitive functioning emotional regulation mixed regarding single exercises
• Simultaneous Treatment of Neurocognitive and Psychiatric Symptoms in Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and History of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pilot Study of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (2015) · doi

  Application of mindfulness-based interventions to address either cognitive or psychiatric symptoms in isolation appears efficacious in many contexts; however, it remains unclear whether this type of intervention might help address simultaneous neurocognitive and psychiatric symptomatology.

  Keywords: address psychiatric application mindfulness based interventions either cognitive symptoms isolation appears efficacious contexts remains unclear