Psychological assessments, allostatic load and gene expression analyses in a randomized controlled trial comparing meditation, yoga, and stress education.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The mind-body research field has explored a broad range of outcome measures, however, there has not been systematic investigation on these outcome measures and there is little knowledge on what outcome measures can capture the differences between different mind-body practices. Therefore, this three-arm randomized controlled trial examined the effects of meditation vs. yoga vs. an active control condition of stress education, with a large battery of outcome measures including psychosocial self-report variables, allostatic load biomarkers, and gene expression measures.

Methods

A total of 211 chronically stressed but otherwise healthy adults were randomized to 8-week one-on-one in-person interventions of meditation (N = 73), yoga (N = 68) or stress educ

SUBMITTER: Denninger JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12463968 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature