About the Authors

Eric B. Loucks

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

eric.loucks@brown.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

William R. Nardi

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Roee Gutman

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Ian M. Kronish

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Frances B. Saadeh

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Yu Li

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Anna E. Wentz

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Julie Webb

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

David R. Vago

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Abigail Harrison

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Willoughby B. Britton

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Behavioral Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Loucks is Director of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. The Mindfulness Center, a non-profit entity, has an Education Unit that provides mindfulness based program delivery to the general public for fees. However, Dr. Loucks’s salary is not tied to quantity or content of programs offered through the Mindfulness Center. Dr. Loucks is a practicing Buddhist, and while the mindfulness elements of MBSR and MB-BP have roots in Buddhist philosophy, the intervention is designed for use in secular health settings, and does not encourage any particular religion. Additionally, conditions were put in place to limit the potential bias of Dr. Loucks’s religious affiliation on study data interpretation. For example, the primary outcomes were preregistered on ClinicalTrials.gov. Dr. Loucks did not have access to the data file. He also did not perform the statistical analyses which were performed by an independent data analyst (Y.L.), or the qualitative coding and analyses that were led by three trained co-authors (W.N., A.W., J.W.). The data have been made publicly available using the OpenScience Framework. Dr. Britton is an MBSR and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy teacher. She has received payment to provide trainings on best practices for harms monitoring, measurement, and management. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.