Mindfulness-based interventions with youth: A comprehensive meta-analysis of group-design studies |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States;2. Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, United States;3. Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States;1. University of Utah, United States;2. University of Massachusetts Boston, United States;3. University of California, Riverside, United States;4. Louisiana State University, United States;1. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, United States;2. Department of Psychology, McGill University, Canada;3. School of Health Sciences, Jackson State University, United States;4. Department of Health Sciences, University of Alabama, United States;5. Centre de santé et de services sociaux de la Vieille-Capitale, Canada;1. Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, CORO West, Suite 309, One Hoppin Street, Providence, RI 02903, United States;2. Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States |
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| Abstract: | The treatment effects of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) with youth were synthesized from 76 studies involving 6121 participants. A total of 885 effect sizes were aggregated using meta-regression with robust variance estimation. Overall, MBIs were associated with small treatment effects in studies using pre-post (g = 0.305, SE = 0.039) and controlled designs (g = 0.322, SE = 0.040). Treatment effects were measured after a follow-up period in 24 studies (n = 1963). Results demonstrated that treatment effects were larger at follow-up than post-treatment in pre-post (g = 0.462, SE = 0.118) and controlled designs (g = 0.402, SE = 0.081). Moderator analyses indicated that intervention setting and intervention dosage were not meaningfully related to outcomes after controlling for study design quality. With that said, the between-study heterogeneity in the intercept-only models was consistently small, thus limiting the amount of variance for the moderators to explain. A series of exploratory analyses were used to investigate the differential effectiveness of MBIs across four therapeutic process domains and seven therapeutic outcome domains. Small, positive results were generally observed across the process and outcome domains. Notably, MBIs were associated with moderate effects on the process variable of mindfulness in controlled studies (n = 1108, g = 0.510). Limitations and directions for future research and practice are discussed. |
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