{"id":77980,"date":"2017-04-16T20:24:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=77980"},"modified":"2017-04-16T20:24:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T14:54:41","slug":"group-meditation-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/group-meditation-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Group meditation is good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meditation will always help, as a study finds mindfulness group therapy has an equally positive effect as individual cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of a wide range of psychiatric symptoms in patients with depression, anxiety and stress-related disorders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The results suggests that various scales measured, among others, symptoms of depression, general anxiety, stress and somatisation, obsessive-compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, aggression, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and psychoticism. There was no difference in treatment effect between the two groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Group therapy with mindfulness can be a viable alternative treatment, which at the same will free up resources in healthcare to be used more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77982 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/group-meditation-for-world-peace.jpg\" alt=\"group-meditation-for-world-peace\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur new research shows that mindfulness group therapy has the equivalent effect as individual CBT for a wide range of psychiatric symptoms that are common among this patient group,\u201d said lead researcher Jan Sundquist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team included 215 patients with depression, anxiety and stress-related disorders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They studied a broad range of psychiatric symptoms and how these symptoms changed during the treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The results showed that the average score for all 15 different subscales\/indexes in the various questionnaires decreased significantly in both scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation will always help, as a study finds mindfulness group therapy has an equally positive effect as individual cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of a wide range of psychiatric symptoms in patients with depression, anxiety and stress-related disorders. The results suggests that various scales measured, among others, symptoms of depression, general anxiety, stress and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29598,29597,2],"tags":[11252,6743,40232,40231,40233,40234],"class_list":["post-77980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-special-stories","category-top-stories","tag-anxiety","tag-depression","tag-group-meditation","tag-group-meditation-is-good","tag-psychiatric-symptoms","tag-stress-related-disorders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/group-meditation.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}