Meta-analytic procedures for social research

https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/32578.pdf

Mindfulness-based stress reduction for healthy individuals: A meta-analysis.

https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/7003312/1-s2.0-S0272735815300623-main.pdf

Effectiveness of online mindfulness-based interventions in improving mental health: A review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Mindfulness-based interventions for psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Mindfulness meditation is a well-validated intervention for symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders in adults, with meta-analyses showing moderate effect sizes. This study marks the first published meta-analysis of the burgeoning literature on mindfulness meditation with youth (conducted between 2004 and 2011) and identifies specific outcomes and sub-populations for whom mindfulness may be particularly helpful. Inclusion criteria were peer-reviewed journal articles published in English, study participants under 18 years of age, and a description in the methods section of mindfulness as the chief component of an intervention. A systematic search was conducted, of which upon review, 20 articles met inclusion criteria. Mindfulness interventions with youth overall were found to be helpful and not to carry iatrogenic harm, with the primary omnibus effect size (del) in the small to moderate range (0.23, p < .0001), indicating the superiority of mindfulness treatments over active control comparison conditions. A significantly larger effect size was found on psychological symptoms compared to other dependent variable types (0.37 vs. 0.21, p = .028), and for studies drawn from clinical samples compared to non-clinical sample (0.50 vs. 0.20, p = .024). Mindfulness appears to be a promising intervention modality for youth. Although to date the majority of studies on mindfulness with youth engage generally healthy participants recruited from schools, the findings of this meta-analysis suggest that future research might focus on youth in clinical settings and target symptoms of psychopathology.

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Mindfulness Interventions with Youth: A Meta-Analysis

Mindfulness-based therapy: A comprehensive meta-analysis

Aim: The study aims to determine the predictive value of negative symptoms, depression, short-term verbal learning and gender on three areas of social functioning – social life, vocational functioning and independent living skills – in a sample of 88 individuals with early psychosis.



Methods: Participants were recruited from Early Psychosis Intervention programmes and community mental health clinics in British Columbia, Canada, and completed the following measures: Client's Assessment of Strengths, Interests, and Goals, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Beck Depression Inventory and California Verbal Learning Task.



Results: Multiple linear regressions revealed that: more negative symptoms and higher depression predicted a less active social life; more negative symptoms and poorer short-term verbal learning ability predicted lower vocational functioning; and more negative symptoms and male gender predicted lower independent living skills.



Conclusion: Results suggest that negative symptoms are predictive of all three areas of functioning but that specific variables add significant unique variance to individual areas of social functioning. Although a global social functioning score can be considered useful, greater precision can be gained by the use of domain-specific measures.

Social functioning in early psychosis: are all the domains predicted by the same variables?

Metacognitive profiles in individuals with a first episode of psychosis and their relation to social functioning and perceived social support.

Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are consistently found to have smaller social networks, as well as deficits in metacognition; the results for those with comorbid substance misuse are contr...

Evolution of social networks in early psychosis

La methamphetamine (MA) fait beaucoup couler d’encre dans les medias, par sa popularite grandissante ainsi que par ses effets psychotropes et nefastes. S’agit-il d’un stimulant comme un autre, ou la methamphetamine entraine-t-elle des difficultes specifiques chez ses utilisateurs ? Cet article se veut une breve revue de la documentation scientifique decrivant les raisons de sa popularite ainsi que les problemes physiques, dentaires, psychiatriques, cognitifs et judiciaires qui y sont associes. Les profils d’utilisateurs ainsi que les traitements proposes a ce jour seront egalement presentes. En somme, nous tenterons d’illustrer la complexite des troubles rencontres chez l’utilisateur de MA, les similitudes avec les utilisateurs de stimulants, ainsi que les limites des traitements actuels pour repondre aux besoins lies a cette complexite.

https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/smq/2014-v39-n2-smq01635/1027836ar.pdf

Marjolaine Masse

Papers

Mindfulness-based therapy: A comprehensive meta-analysis

Social functioning in early psychosis: are all the domains predicted by the same variables?

Metacognitive profiles in individuals with a first episode of psychosis and their relation to social functioning and perceived social support.

Evolution of social networks in early psychosis

La méthamphétamine – un stimulant comme les autres ou un problème plus complexe ?