Mindfulness may be a cheaper option for helping with your depression

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Mindfulness could be a cheaper and more effective option for dealing with your depression, when compared against cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), say UK researchers. In full, the practice is called practitioner-supported mindfulness-based cognitive therapy self-help (MBCT-SH), which includes meditation, body- and breath-awareness, focusing on the moment and yoga, and the researchers say it led to significantly reduced symptoms of depression compared to CBT, after 16 weeks of practice.

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conference: JAMA Psychiatry

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Organisation/s: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Funder: The National Institute for Health and Care Research funded this study (grant PB-PG-0815-20056), and the Brighton & Sussex Clinical Trials Unit and the National Institute for Health and Care Research Clinical Research Network supported delivery. Rigorous trial oversight was supported by the trial steering committee and by the data monitoring and ethics committee.

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