Meditation for treating adults with bipolar disorder II: A multi-city study.
Clin Psychol Psychother
; 26(2): 252-261, 2019 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
There is a need to generate evidence on whether meditation's core aspect of building and nurturing calm and peace serves as a mood stabilizer for current and recurrent episodes of depression through the acute and maintenance phases of treating bipolar disorder II affected patients. A 2-year longitudinal multi-city randomized controlled trial experiment was conducted comprising 311 bipolar disorder II affected patients in the intervention and control group respectively across eight African and Asian cities. The Bipolar Depression Rating Scale (BDRS) was administered with the intervention and control groups that were equal at baseline. Meditation had a positive impact on the intervention group. Post intervention BDRS scores were significantly lower for patients from Asian cities, men, Hindus and Buddhists, middle class, and married patients as well as those who attended all the meditation rounds and regularly self-practiced. Within the BDRS outcome measure, depressive symptoms were impacted the most as compared with mixed symptoms. Meditation helped alleviate guilt, depressed mood, and helplessness-hopelessness. The meditation programme can be used as a combination therapy along with pharmacological treatment to treat mood instability and depression among patients with bipolar disorder II.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtorno Bipolar
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Meditação
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Africa
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Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Clin Psychol Psychother
Assunto da revista:
PSICOLOGIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
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TERAPEUTICA
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Índia