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Mindfulness research’s huge problem with uninformative control groups

Bob

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Coyne said:
For a large proportion of studies of psychological interventions for chronic health conditions, the primary outcomes are indeed subjective self-report. Even when conceptually possible, objective measures of health conditions are either not included or they are deemphasized as secondary outcomes. The message of this study, again delivered with appropriate caution, is that we should not be generalizing from results obtained with subjective self-report to objective health outcomes.