Do mindfulness-based programmes improve the cognitive skills, behaviour and mental health of children and adolescents? An updated meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
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- Authors
- Dunning D; Tudor K; Radley L; Dalrymple N; Funk J; Vainre M; Ford T; Montero-Marin J; Kuyken W; Dalgleish T
- Source
- Evidence-Based Mental Health
r-FSJD. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica de la Fundació Sant Joan de Déu
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- Subject
- Child & adolescent psychiatry
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- ISSN
- 1468-960X
QUESTION: Mindfulness-based programmes (MBPs) are an increasingly popular approach to improving mental health in young people. Our previous meta-analysis suggested that MBPs show promising effectiveness, but highlighted a lack of high-quality, adequately powered randomised controlled trials (RCTs). This updated meta-analysis assesses the-state-of the-art of MBPs for young people in light of new studies. It explores MBP's effectiveness in active vs passive controls; selective versus universal interventions; and studies that included follow-up. STUDY SELECTION AND ANALYSIS: We searched for published and unpublished RCTs of MBPs with young people (