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Mindfulness

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Reading on Mindfulness

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Paper2012

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review

Holger Cramer, Heidemarie Haller, Romy Lauche & Gustav Dobos

Reviews the randomised trials of Kabat-Zinn's mindfulness-based stress reduction protocol applied specifically to chronic low back pain and finds tentative evidence it improves pain and disability, while noting the founding trials were too small and methodologically thin to call the result settled.

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Paper2018

Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation

Nicholas T. Van Dam et al.

Argues that popular and scientific claims for mindfulness have outrun the evidence, pointing to inconsistent definitions, weak controls and small effect sizes across the published trials, and sets out what better research would look like.

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Reading on Mindfulness

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review

Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation

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