Meditation for posttraumatic stress: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Lara HiltonAlicia Ruelaz MaherBenjamin ColaiacoEric ApaydinMelony E SorberoMarika BoothRoberta M ShanmanSusanne Hempel

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2016)

Meditation appears to be effective for PTSD and depression symptoms, but in order to increase confidence in findings, more high-quality studies are needed on meditation as adjunctive treatment with PTSD-diagnosed participant samples large enough to detect statistical differences in outcomes. (PsycINFO Database Record

Keyphrases

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