Transcendental Meditation for the improvement of health and wellbeing in community-dwelling dementia caregivers [TRANSCENDENT]: a randomised wait-list controlled trial
Leach, Matthew J.; Francis, Andrew; Ziaian, Tahereh (2015). Transcendental Meditation for the improvement of health and wellbeing in community-dwelling dementia caregivers [TRANSCENDENT]: a randomised wait-list controlled trial. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 15, 145.
Twelve-week pilot randomized wait-list controlled trial in 17 dementia caregivers. Response speed improved relative to control, while other between-group outcomes were nonsignificant. The small trial was underpowered for firm efficacy conclusions.
- Year
- 2015
- Journal
- BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Publication type
- Journal
- Paper type
- Empirical
- Section
- Health
Findings (3)
Cognitive Performance
Response speed improved relative to the wait-list control (p = .03).
Transcendental Meditation · Randomized controlled trial
Psychological Health
Other primary and secondary between-group changes, including wellbeing measures, were not statistically significant.
Transcendental Meditation · Randomized controlled trial
Health—General
Adverse events were reported by 63% of TM-treated participants, generally transient and mild to moderate, and only possibly related to treatment.
Transcendental Meditation · Randomized controlled trial