Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
2025
Louise Sharpe, Madelyne A Bisby, Rachel E. Menzies et al.
7 citations
This study aimed to determine the relative efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) or cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in comparison to a waitlist control (WLC) for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Participants completed assessments before and after treatment and at 6-month follow-up. Two hundred and sixty-nine participants with RA were recruited and randomised in a 2:2:1...
Pain
October 1, 2023
Jonathan N. Davies, Ben Colagiuri, Louise Sharpe et al.
15 citations
Mindfulness apps are becoming popular treatments for chronic pain and mental health, despite mixed evidence supporting their efficacy. Furthermore, it is unclear whether improvements in pain are due to mindfulness-specific effects or placebo effects because no trials have compared mindfulness against a sham control. The objective of this study was to compare mindfulness against 2 sham...
Pain
August 14, 2023
Louise Sharpe, Bethany Richmond, Rachel E. Menzies et al.
Abstract: Mindfulness interventions have become popular in recent decades, with many trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses of the impact of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on pain. Although many meta-analyses provide support for MBIs, the results are more mixed than they at first appear. The aim of this umbrella review was to determine the strength of evidence for MBIs by...
Pain
October 1, 2022
Jonathan N. Davies, Louise Sharpe, Melissa A Day et al.
Abstract: Recent sham-controlled studies suggest placebo effects contribute to acute pain relief after mindfulness interventions. However, the specific effects of mindfulness processes and their interaction with placebo effects remain unclear. This study aimed to characterize the role of mindfulness and placebo processes underlying mindfulness-based pain attenuation. Both treatment (focused...
Journal of Medical Internet Research
March 2, 2021
Amy-Lee Sesel, Louise Sharpe, Heidi N Beadnall et al.
Background: Mindfulness-based stress reduction is an efficacious treatment for people with chronic health problems; however, it is highly intensive and time-consuming, which is a barrier for service provision. Objective: This study aims to develop an internet-delivered adapted version of mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis to make the intervention more...
Pain
August 1, 2020
Alice Shires, Louise Sharpe, Jonathan N. Davies et al.
Abstract: Recent meta-analyses have shown mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) to be effective for chronic pain, but no pooled estimates of the effect of MBIs on acute pain are available. This meta-analysis was conducted to fill that gap. A literature search was conducted in 4 databases. Articles were eligible if they reported on randomized controlled trials of MBIs for people with acute pain...
Psychosomatic Medicine
Jonathan N. Davies, Louise Sharpe, Melissa A Day et al.
Meta-analyses indicate that mindfulness meditation is efficacious for chronic and acute pain, but most available studies lack active control comparisons. This raises the possibility that placebo-related processes may account, at least in part, for mindfulness effects. The objective of this study was to develop a closely matched sham mindfulness condition to establish whether placebo effects...