Mindfulness Training in a Heterogeneous Psychiatric Sample: Outcome Evaluation and Comparison of Different Diagnostic Groups

Abstract

Mindfulness training is associated with overall improvement in a heterogeneous outpatient population. Differences in outcome between diagnostic categories may be ascribed to differences in illness duration and baseline severity.

Psychotherapy of adjustment disorders: Current state and future directions

“…In a mixed-sample study (Bos et al 2014), mindfulness training was associated with an improvement in psychological symptoms, quality of life and mindfulness skills in patients with AD. In an RCT (Sundquist et al 2015), mindfulness-based group therapy was similarly effective as individual-based CBT for primary care patients with depressive, anxiety or stress and ADs.…”

Meditative interventions and antisocial personality disorder

“…who were not experiencing current symptoms) and who attended eight weeks of mindfulness training (including both MBSR and MBCT). Among the mixed-patient group, results showed significant improvements in the participants' reported quality of life, as well as reductions in anxiety, depression, insomnia, and addiction behaviors (Bos et al, 2013). However, this study was limited due to lack of a control group and lack of random assignment to the treatment.…”

“…While both MBSR and MBCT focus on meditation and are based on the eastern philosophies of Yoga and Buddhism (Edenfield & Saeed, 2012), MBCT also includes elements of cognitive therapy for depression (Strauss et al, 2014). Both types of meditative treatment approaches (termed MBIs or meditative interventions in this paper) have been used successfully to treat individuals with somatization disorders (Lakhan & Schofield, 2013), (PTSD: Earley et al, 2014), bipolar disorder (Bos, Merea, van den Brink, Sanderman, & Bartels-Velthuis, 2013), and anxiety, and depression (Strauss et al, 2014).…”

“…in a longitudinal study by Earley et al (2014), child-abuse survivors (n = 23) who engaged in MBIs reported reduced depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms from baseline to the 128-week follow-up. Also, Bos et al (2013) compared preand post-treatment data of 143 outpatients who had stable psychiatric disorders (i.e. who were not experiencing current symptoms) and who attended eight weeks of mindfulness training (including both MBSR and MBCT).…”

Efecto mediacional de la conciencia plena entre la práctica del yoga y la rumiación en adultos de Lima Metropolitana

“…Los pacientes con bipolaridad no mejoraron significativamente en estas medidas; es posible que esto se deba a una mayor duración de la enfermedad y una línea base más baja en cuanto a la severidad de la categoría bipolar. Se concluyó que el entrenamiento en conciencia plena está asociado a una mejora general en una población de pacientes heterogéneos; las diferencias en los resultados entre las categorías diagnósticas, se debería a diferencias en la duración y severidad de las enfermedades (Bos, Merea, Brink, Sanderman, Bartels, Velthuis, 2014). Se ha reportado además mejoras tras intervenciones basadas en consciencia plena en trastornos obsesivo-compulsivos (Hertenstein, et al 2012), mejoras en síntomas psicológicos y conductuales del hipotiroidismo (Schulte, 2007) y beneficios para el funcionamiento mental en pacientes con síntomas sin explicación médica (van Ravesteijn, Lucassen, Bor, van Weel, Speckens, 2013).…”