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...
BMJ Open
November 26, 2022
Nick Glozier, Ben Colagiuri, Dean J Wright
3 citations
Objectives To compare attitudes of mental health (MH) professionals towards trials of methylenedioxymethamphetamine-assisted psychotherapy (MDMA-AP), with a neutrally labelled pharmacotherapy trial.Design A randomised controlled vignette study design, with experimenters blinded to group condition.Setting Participants were recruited online via professional societies.Participants Psychiatrists,...
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...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
January 16, 2012
Geoffrey W Melville, Dennis Chang, Ben Colagiuri et al.
This study compared acute (15 min) yoga posture and guided meditation practice, performed seated in a typical office workspace, on physiological and psychological markers of stress. Twenty participants (39.6 ± 9.5 yr) completed three conditions: yoga, meditation, and control (i.e., usual work) separated by ≥24 hrs. Yoga and meditation significantly reduced perceived stress versus control, and...
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...