The Effects of Mindfulness Interventions on Older Adults' Cognition: A Meta-Analysis.
Objectives To examine the effect of mindfulness interventions on cognitive tasks in healthy older adults and older adults with diagnoses of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. Methods Three-level meta-analysis and systematic review of 30 published randomized-controlled trials. Results Mindf...
| Publicado en: | Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 394 - 409 |
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Mar2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=162239164&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 162239164 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10795014 JGB jtl: Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences issn: 10795014 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2023 vid: 78 iid: 3 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 162239164 10.1093/geronb/gbac143 ppf: 394 ppct: 15 formats: tig: atl: The Effects of Mindfulness Interventions on Older Adults' Cognition: A Meta-Analysis. aug: au: Mirabito, Grazia Verhaeghen, Paul affil: Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, Georgia , USA su: Mindfulness Memory Meditation Task performance Attention Old age Treatment of dementia Online information services Psychology information storage & retrieval systems Meta-analysis Confidence intervals Mild cognitive impairment Systematic reviews Effect sizes (Statistics) Dementia patients Descriptive statistics Cognitive testing MEDLINE Space perception sug: subj: Mindfulness Memory Meditation Task performance Attention Old age Treatment of dementia Online information services Psychology information storage & retrieval systems Meta-analysis Confidence intervals Mild cognitive impairment Systematic reviews Effect sizes (Statistics) Dementia patients Descriptive statistics Cognitive testing MEDLINE Space perception keyword: Cognitive decline Intervention Meta-Analysis Cognitive decline Intervention Meta-Analysis ab: Objectives To examine the effect of mindfulness interventions on cognitive tasks in healthy older adults and older adults with diagnoses of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. Methods Three-level meta-analysis and systematic review of 30 published randomized-controlled trials. Results Mindfulness interventions provided a small, yet significant positive effect on cognition compared to a control group (average weighted Hedges' g = 0.36, 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.06–0.65]). Attention (g = 0.22, 95% CI = [0.09, 0.35]), long-term memory (g = 0.32, 95% CI = [0.08, 0.56]), and visuospatial processing (g = 0.22, 95% CI = [0.10, 0.34]) all showed significantly meaningful changes regardless of cognitive status of the participants. There was no evidence for publication bias. Healthy older adults showed higher effect sizes than those with MCI (g = 0.27, 95% CI = [0.11, 0.43], vs. (g = −0.09, 95% CI = [−0.35, 0.17], respectively). Otherwise, there were no significant moderating effects of age, marital status, education, region, intervention type, length, number of sessions, adherence, or gender on effect size. Moderator analyses within cognitive domains suggest that focused attention practices might be the best for improving cognition. Lastly, meditation interventions seem to work as effectively as other mind-body interventions, but not as effectively as other interventions to improve cognitive functioning in older adults. Discussion Mindfulness interventions appear to be a useful tool for improving cognitive functioning in older adults. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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