Understanding the Implementation of Informal Meditation Practice in a Smartphone-Based Intervention: A Qualitative Analysis.

Objectives: Informal practice (i.e., brief meditation practices incorporated spontaneously into daily activities) may be important for increasing the efficacy and accessibility of meditation-based interventions (MedBIs).

Situating Meditation Apps Within the Ecosystem of Meditation Practice: Population-Based Survey Study.

Background: Meditation apps have the potential to increase access to evidence-based strategies to promote mental health. However, it is currently unclear how meditation apps are situated within the broader landscape of meditation practice and what factors may influence engagement with them.

Objective: This study aimed to clarify the prevalence and correlates of meditation app use in a population-based sample of individuals with lifetime exposure to meditation in the United States.

Does meditation training promote pro-environmental behavior? A cross-sectional comparison and a randomized controlled trial.

Meditation training may promote pro-environmental behavior and related variables, though limited research has tested this experimentally. We investigated whether short- or long-term meditation training were associated with pro-environmental behavior, environmental attitudes, and sustainable well-being (i.e.

Who Sticks with Meditation? Rates and Predictors of Persistence in a Population-based Sample in the USA.

Objectives: Despite the well-documented psychological benefits of meditation practice, limited research has examined factors associated with meditation practice persistence. Like other health behaviors (e.g.

Motivation for Meditation and its Association with Meditation Practice in a National Sample of Internet Users.

Objectives: There is limited understanding of what motivates people to initiate and sustain a meditation practice. This study investigates initial and current motivations for meditation, demographic variability in motivations, and associations with ongoing and lifetime meditation practice.

Methods: A national sample of internet users were recruited to examine initial and current motivations for meditation practice.

Overall and Differential Attrition in Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Meta-Analysis.

Objectives: Attrition is very common in longitudinal research, including randomized controlled trials (RCTs) testing psychological interventions. Establishing rates and predictors of attrition in mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can assist clinical trialists and intervention developers. Differential attrition in RCTs that compared MBIs with structure and intensity matched active control conditions also provides an objective metric of relative treatment acceptability.

Mobile phone-based interventions for mental health: A systematic meta-review of 14 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials.

Mobile phone-based interventions have been proposed as a means for reducing the burden of disease associated with mental illness. While numerous randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses have investigated this possibility, evidence remains unclear. We conducted a systematic meta-review of meta-analyses examining mobile phone-based interventions tested in randomized controlled trials.

Prevalence of meditation-related adverse effects in a population-based sample in the United States.

Objective: Meditation practice and meditation-based psychotherapies have become increasingly popular. Although psychological benefits associated with meditation are well-documented, potential risks are unclear.

Method: We conducted a population-based survey to evaluate the occurrence of a broad range of meditation-related adverse effects (MRAE).