What Do We Know About the Validity and Reliability of Mindfulness Self-Report Measures in Persons with Dementia? A Critical Narrative Review.
Clinical Gerontologist January 1, 2025 Philipp M Keune, Regina Meister, Jana Keune et al. 2 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions for people with dementia have shown inconsistent results, partly because the accuracy of self-reported mindfulness measures in this population is poorly understood. This narrative review examined studies that used self-reported trait mindfulness alongside other clinical measures to assess convergent validity and reliability in people with dementia. After screening 582 studies from PubMed and PsychInfo, only four cross-sectional studies allowed inferences about validity. Convergent validity varied with sample heterogeneity and cognitive impairment. Only one mindfulness-based intervention included a self-report trait mindfulness measure, but it did not report sample-specific validity or reliability. The review concludes that basic psychometric information is minimal and that results of mindfulness-based interventions should be interpreted cautiously.