CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 60Menopause: Health Impacts and TreatmentsMindfulness and Compassion InterventionsCancer survivorship and care

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) or psychoeducation for the reduction of menopausal symptoms: a randomized, controlled clinical trial

Open access
Wong, Carmen, Yip, Benjamin Hon-Kei, Gao, Ting, Lam, Kitty Yu Yuk, Woo, Doris Mei Sum, Yip, Annie Lai King, Chin, Chloe Yu, Tang, Winnie Pui Yin +5 more·2018·Scientific Reports
DOI 10.1038/s41598-018-24945-4PMC PMC5919973
Open this paper in CoChat — free accountOpen PDF

Abstract

Psychological and behavioural interventions may be effective in reducing menopause-related symptoms. This randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in reducing menopause-related symptoms by comparing with an active control group, the menopause education control (MEC). Symptomatic peri-menopausal and post-menopausal women with mild to moderate symptoms were recruited. The primary outcome was overall menopausal symptoms measured by modified Greene Climacteric Scale (GCS). Secondary outcomes include subscales of the GCS perceived stress, mindfulness and health related Quality of Life. All outcome measures were collected at baseline, 2 months (immediately post intervention), 5 and 8 months (3 and 6 months post intervention respectively). Both MBSR (n = 98) and MEC (n = 99) groups reported a reduction in total GCS score at 8 months. Between group analysis show significant symptom score reduction in MBSR group on Anxiety and Depression subscales of GCS. No differences were found between groups on other GCS subscales and majority of the secondary outcome measures. The findings show that menopausal symptoms in both MBSR and MEC significantly reduced over the study period. MBSR show a greater reduction of psychological symptoms of depression and anxiety above active controls but do not reduce other somatic, urogenital and vasomotor symptoms.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/s41598-018-24945-4

Cites

61 of 61 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • MBSR had no significant effect on health-related quality of life in peri- or postmenopausal women.

    “No significant effect on health-related quality of life.”

    From The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions on non-physiological symptoms of menopause: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2024) · cites this paper as *Wong et al. (2018)

    The Results (Secondary Outcome) report no significant difference between MBSR and menopause education on SF-12 health-related quality-of-life scores. They also report significant improvement in SF-12 scores over time across both groups, so the claim is supported only if “no significant effect” means no additional effect relative to the active control. (LLM, conf=0.87)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

  • MBSR was not effective on the SF-12 (Wong et al., 2018).

    “but not SF-12 (12 item Short Form Health Survey; Wong et al., 2018).”

    From The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions on non-physiological symptoms of menopause: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2024) · cites this paper as Wong et al., 2018

    The Results (Secondary Outcome; page not provided) report no significant SF-12 difference between MBSR and psychoeducation, supporting a lack of demonstrated comparative benefit. But they also report SF-12 improvement over time in both groups, so saying MBSR was simply “not effective” overstates the finding. (LLM, conf=0.86)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Wong, C., Yip, B. H.-K., Gao, T., Lam, K. Y. Y., Woo, D. M. S., Yip, A. L. K., Chin, C. Y., Tang, W. P. Y., Choy, M. M. T., Tsang, K. W. K., Ho, S. C., Ma, H. S. W., & Wong, S. Y. S.
Affiliations
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
Corresponding author
Wong, Samuel Yeung Shan
ORCID
Venue
Scientific Reports
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2018-04-26
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
6609-6609
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1038/s41598-018-24945-4
PMC
PMC5919973
OpenAlex
W2805811183
Cited by
60
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3
FWCI
3.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
Keywords
mindfulness-based stress reduction, menopausal symptoms, psychoeducation, menopause education, perimenopausal women, postmenopausal women, anxiety, depression, perceived stress, health-related quality of life, vasomotor symptoms, urogenital symptoms, somatic symptoms
MeSH terms
Adult, Female, Humans, Menopause, Middle Aged, Patient Compliance, Patient Education as Topic, Psychotherapy, Risk Factors, Severity of Illness Index, Socioeconomic Factors, Stress, Psychological, Treatment Outcome, Mindfulness

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review