Effect of progressive self-focus meditation on attention, anxiety, and depression scores
Aug 29th, 2010 by admin
Percept Mot Skills. 2010 Jun;110(3 Pt 1):840-8.
Leite JR, Ornellas FL, Amemiya TM, de Almeida AA, Dias AA, Afonso R, Little S, Kozasa EH.
Behavioral Medicine Unit, Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
This study evaluated the effects of Progressive Self-focus Meditation with 42 volunteers (M age = 46.0 yr., SD = 14.1) allocated to two groups: one that had weekly 1-hr. training sessions in the practice for 5 wk. and one waiting-list group. Participants were evaluated before and after 5 wk. on the Beck Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, the Digit Symbol subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale. After 5 wk., a significant reduction in scores on depression was found in the Meditation group as well as an increase in attention in comparison with the waiting-list Control group.
PMID: 20681336
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