Meditation‐based lifestyle modification in mild to moderate depression—A randomized controlled trial

Bringmann, Holger C.; Michalsen, Andreas; Jeitler, Michael; Kessler, Christian S.; Brinkhaus, Benno; Brunnhuber, Stefan

doi:10.1002/da.23249

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“…The present study aimed at testing the buffering effect of meditation and perseverance on depression. Consistent with related studies, NFC increased the risks of depression [ 15 ] and meditation practice buffered depression [ 43 , 44 ]. In contrast to other related studies that investigated the meditating effect of meditation practice [ 31 , 34 , 35 ], the present study demonstrated the significant buffering effect of meditation on NFC on depression, indicating that a higher level of meditation practice indicated a lower level of depression would be observed.…”

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Buffering Effect of Perseverance and Meditation on Depression among Medical Students Experiencing Negative Family Climate

Pongpitpitak

Wongpakaran

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Background and objective: Thirty percent of Thai medical students experienced depression. Two of the crucial factors related to depression involved borderline personality disorder symptoms and adverse family experiences, while positive strengths were documented to prevent depression. This study aimed to investigate the role of perseverance and meditation on depression; Methods: Two hundred and forty−three medical student participants completed the following measurements: the core symptom index (CSI−D) to measure depression, the family climate questionnaire to measure family experience, the personality disorder questionnaire to measure borderline personality disorder symptoms, and the inner strength−based inventory to measure perseverance and meditation. In the analysis, depression served as an outcome, adverse family climate as a predictor and borderline personality disorder symptoms as a mediator. In contrast, perseverance and meditation were moderators in the mediation model. Mediation and moderation analysis using PROCESS was applied for testing the direct and indirect effects; Results: Among all, 49.38% were male, and the mean age was 22.76 years. Borderline personality disorder symptoms significantly mediated the relationship between adverse family climate and depression, B = 0.0608 (95%CI, 0.0301 to 0.1052). The variance explained by the mediation model was 43%. Meditation moderated the relationship between adverse family climate and borderline personality symptoms, whereas perseverance and meditation were found to be significant moderators for borderline personality disorder symptoms and depression. With two moderators in the mediation model, the indirect effect index was B = 0.0072 (95%CI, 0.0002 to 0.0160). The 49% of variances of depression were explained by the moderated mediation model; Conclusion: Borderline personality disorder symptoms are a crucial variable involving depression. Meditation practice has been demonstrated to be a buffer between negative family climate to borderline personality disorder symptoms and depressive symptoms, whereas perseverance buffers the effect of borderline personality disorder symptoms of depression. Further research on cultivating meditation and perseverance should be encouraged among those with negative family experiences.

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Buffering Effect of Perseverance and Meditation on Depression among Medical Students Experiencing Negative Family Climate

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Wongpakaran

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Healthcare

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“…Another potential explanation could be a regression to the mean or a spontaneous remission for those participants that experienced more difficulties. However, this might be unlikely, as in outpatients with clinical depression, MBLM turned out to be more effective than treatment as usual [ 92 ].…”

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Who Benefits Most? Interactions between Personality Traits and Outcomes of Four Incremental Meditation and Yoga Treatments

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Berghöfer

Jeitler

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Mind–Body Medicine (MBM) includes a broad range of interventions with proven preventive and clinical value, such as yoga and meditation. However, people differ in their preferences and response to different MBM treatments and it remains unclear who benefits most from what type of practice. Thus, finding moderators of treatment outcome seems to be a promising approach. This was the aim of the present study. We conducted a single-case multiple-baseline study investigating the outcomes and moderators of four different MBM treatments. Fifty-seven healthy participants with no prior experience were randomly assigned to three baselines (7, 14, and 21 days) and four eight-week treatments: mantra meditation alone, meditation plus physical yoga, meditation plus ethical education and meditation plus yoga and ethical education. We analysed the data using effect size estimation, multiple regression and cluster analyses. High anxiety, high absorption, low spirituality, low openness and younger age were associated with a range of positive outcomes, such as increased wellbeing or decentering and decreased mind wandering. Receiving ethical education consistently improved wellbeing, while engaging in physical yoga reduced mind wandering. In the cluster analysis, we found that participants with a more maladaptive personality structure enhanced their emotion regulation skills more. Consequently, people do differ in their response to MBM interventions and more vulnerable people, or those high in absorption, seem to benefit more. These findings could support the development of custom-tailored MBM interventions and help clinicians to make scientifically sound recommendations for their patients.

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Who benefits most? Interactions between personality traits and outcomes of four incremental meditation and yoga treatments

Matko,

Berghöfer,

Jeitler

et al. 2022

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Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) includes a broad range of interventions of proven pre-ventive and clinical value, such as yoga and meditation. However, people differ in their preferences and response to different MBM treatments, and it remains unclear who bene-fits most from what type of practice. Thus, finding moderators of treatment outcome seems to be a promising approach. This was the aim of the present study. We conducted a single-case multiple-baseline study investigating the outcomes and moderators of four different MBM treatments. Fifty-seven healthy participants with no prior experience were randomly assigned to three baselines (7, 14, and 21 days) and four eight-week treatments: mantra meditation alone, meditation plus physical yoga, meditation plus ethical education, and meditation plus yoga and ethical education. We analysed the data using effect size estima-tion, multiple regression and cluster analyses. High anxiety, high absorption, low spirituali-ty, low openness and younger age were associated with a range of positive outcomes, such as increased well-being or decentering and decreased mind-wandering. Receiving ethical education consistently improved well-being, while engaging in physical yoga reduced mind-wandering. In the cluster analysis, we found that participants with a more maladaptive per-sonality structure enhanced their emotion regulation skills more. Consequently, people do differ in their response to MBM interventions and more vulnerable people, or those high in absorption, seem to benefit more. These findings could guide the development of custom-tailored MBM interventions and help clinicians to make scientifically sound recommenda-tions for their patients.

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Meditation‐based lifestyle modification in mild to moderate depression—A randomized controlled trial

Cited by 13 publications

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Buffering Effect of Perseverance and Meditation on Depression among Medical Students Experiencing Negative Family Climate

Buffering Effect of Perseverance and Meditation on Depression among Medical Students Experiencing Negative Family Climate

Who Benefits Most? Interactions between Personality Traits and Outcomes of Four Incremental Meditation and Yoga Treatments

Who benefits most? Interactions between personality traits and outcomes of four incremental meditation and yoga treatments

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