Predictors of Improvements in Mental Health From Mindfulness Meditation in Stressed Older Adults.

ABSTRACT: Context • The benefits of a mindfulness meditation (MM) intervention are most often evidenced by improvements in self-rated stress and mental health. Given the physiological complexity of the psychological stress system, it is likely that some people benefit significantly, whereas others do not. Clinicians and researchers could benefit from further exploration to determine which baseline factors can predict clinically significant improvements from MM. Objectives • The study intended to determine (1) whether the baseline measures for participants who significantly benefitted from MM training were different from the baseline measures of participants who did not, and (2) whether a classification analysis using a decision-tree, machine-learning approach could be useful in predicting which indi

SUBMITTER: Oken BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5802968 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature