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The effectiveness of self-help mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in a student sample: A randomised controlled trial 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Lever Taylor, B.,Strauss, C.,Cavanagh, K.,Jones, F.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
  • 출판년도2014
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Behaviour research and therapy
  • 발행사항Vol.63No.-[2014]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN0005-7967
  • 소개/요약Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) involves approximately twenty hours of therapist contact time and is not universally available. MBCT self-help (MBCT-SH) may widen access but little is known about its effectiveness. This paper presents a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of MBCT-SH for students. Eighty students were randomly assigned to an eight-week MBCT-SH condition or a wait-list control. ANOVAs showed significant group by time interactions in favour of MBCT-SH on measures of depression, anxiety, stress, satisfaction with life, mindfulness and self-compassion. Post-intervention between-group effect sizes ranged from Cohen's d = 0.22 to 1.07. Engagement with MBCT-SH was high: participants engaged in mindfulness practice a median of two to three times a week and 85% read at least half the intervention book. Only 5% of participants dropped out. This is the first published RCT of MBCT-SH and benefits were found relative to a control group. MBCT-SH has the potential to be a low-cost, readily available and highly acceptable intervention. Future research should include an active control condition and explore whether findings extend to clinical populations.