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Mindfulness interventions for psychosis: a meta-analysis.

Bassam Khoury¹, Tania Lecomte, Brandon A Gaudiano

¹Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Canada.

Schizophrenia Research

|August 20, 2013

Summary

Mindfulness interventions show moderate effectiveness for individuals with psychosis or schizophrenia, particularly for negative symptoms. Further research is needed to optimize these beneficial mindfulness-based treatments.

Keywords:

Acceptance Compassion Meta-analysis Mindfulness Psychosis Schizophrenia

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Area of Science:

Psychiatry and Mental Health
Behavioral Science

Background:

Growing use of mindfulness interventions for psychosis and schizophrenia.
Lack of meta-analyses on their effectiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

Evaluate the efficacy of mindfulness interventions for psychosis or schizophrenia.
Conduct an effect-size analysis of initial studies.

Main Methods:

Systematic review of studies from PubMed, PsycINFO, and MedLine until July 2013.
Included 13 studies with 468 participants.
Performed effect-size analysis (Hedge's g).

Main Results:

Moderate effectiveness in pre-post analyses (Hedge's g=.52) and controlled analyses (Hedge's g=.41).
Sustained effects at follow-up (pre-post Hedge's g=.62).
Greater impact on negative symptoms; mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion moderated effects. Significant heterogeneity noted.

Conclusions:

Mindfulness interventions are moderately effective for negative symptoms in psychosis/schizophrenia.
Can serve as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy.
More research needed to identify optimal intervention components.