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The literature has acknowledged a bias towards exaggerating the clinical benefits of meditation practice and dismissing its potential adverse effects.
“Yet it has taken almost four decades of research before the literature acknowledged that there might be a bias towards exaggerating the clinical benefits of meditation practice and dismissing its potential adverse effects (4 -6).”
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- Authors
- Farias, M., Wikholm, C., & Delmonte, R.
- Affiliations
- Coventry University (GB)
- National Health Service (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Farias, Miguel
- ORCID
- Farias, Miguel
- Venue
- The Lancet Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-11
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1012-1013
- ISSN
- 2215-0366 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2540240976
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 5.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Lancet Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Pure (Coventry University) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- The Open Collections (Coventry University) (submittedVersion)
- Coventry University Open Collections (Coventry university) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Keywords
- mindfulness-based interventions, mindfulness meditation, treatment efficacy, adverse effects, mental illness, evidence synthesis, mechanisms of change
- MeSH terms
- Mental Disorders, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Treatment Outcome, Meditation, Mindfulness
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