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Health Psychology Review

ISSN 1743-7199

3 papers in the library · publishing 2020-2026

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Meditation and workplace health: a systematic review and meta-analysis of mental and cardiometabolic outcomes among employees

Health Psychology Review April 16, 2026 Mahesh Kumar Khanal, Peter Saunders, Kathy Nguyen et al.

Employees are severely affected by psychological distress, poor cardiometabolic health, and reduced productivity. Meditation has emerged as a potential strategy to enhance overall health. This systematic review synthesised the effectiveness of meditation for improving employees’ mental health and cardiometabolic risk (CMR) markers across 132 randomised controlled trials (145 intervention groups...

DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2026.2652892 (opens in new tab) Anxiety Transcendental meditation Psychological intervention Mental health +8

Mindfulness enhances cognitive functioning: a meta-analysis of 111 randomized controlled trials.

Health Psychology Review June 2024 Nur Hani Zainal, Michelle G Newman

Currently no comprehensive meta-analysis of MBI efficacy on global and unique cognitive subdomains exist. Examined the effects of MBIs on global cognition and 15 cognitive subdomains. Inclusion criteria: meditation naïve participants; randomized controlled trial; outcome included one objective or subjective cognitive functioning measure; primary focus was teaching mindfulness skills. Exclusion...

DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2023.2248222 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Mindfulness-based interventions Cognitive functioning Executive function Meta-analysis +1

Meditation interventions efficiently reduce cortisol levels of at-risk samples: a meta-analysis

Health Psychology Review July 7, 2020 Adam Koncz, Zsolt Demetrovics, Zsófia K. Takács

ABSTRACT Previous meta-analytic results showed beneficial effects of meditation interventions for cortisol levels. In the present meta-analysis we tested whether effects are larger for those who might be in need of such stress reduction programs due to a risk for elevated cortisol levels as compared to no-risk samples. We included RCTs that measured change in cortisol levels. Based on 10...