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Is Dosage of a Meditation App Associated With Changes in Psychological Distress? It Depends on How You Ask
| العنوان: | Is Dosage of a Meditation App Associated With Changes in Psychological Distress? It Depends on How You Ask |
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| المؤلفون: | Goldberg, Simon B., Kendall, Ashley D., Hirshberg, Matthew J., Dahl, Cortland J., Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Davidson, Richard J., Bray, Bethany C. |
| المساهمون: | National Institute on Drug Abuse, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, National Cancer Institute, Spencer Foundation, Hope for Depression Research Foundation, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health |
| المصدر: | Clinical Psychological Science ; ISSN 2167-7026 2167-7034 |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publications |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| الوصف: | Despite growing popularity, associations between dosage and outcomes in meditation-app interventions have not been established. We examined this relationship using a range of operationalizations of dosage (e.g., minutes of use, days of use, number and type of activities completed) and strategies for modeling outcomes (e.g., ordinary least squares regression, multilevel modeling, latent class analysis). We used data from a recently completed randomized controlled trial that tested a meditation app ( N = 662; 80.4% with elevated depression/anxiety) that included psychological distress as its preregistered primary outcome. Across 41 models, whether an association was detected and the shape and direction of this association varied. Although several models indicated that higher dosage was associated with larger decreases in psychological distress, many models failed to show this relationship, and some even showed the opposite. These results may have implications for optimizing and studying dosage in meditation apps and for open-science practices. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1177/21677026241266567 |
| الاتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241266567 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/21677026241266567 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/21677026241266567 |
| Rights: | https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.41CD19B2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1177/21677026241266567 |
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