Mind training, stress and behaviour—A randomised experiment

Yonas Alem; Hannah Behrendt; Michèle Belot; Anikó Bíró

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0258172

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Mind training, stress and behaviour—A randomised experiment

Yonas Alem,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Hannah Behrendt,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Behavioural Insights Team, London, United Kingdom
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Michèle Belot ,

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

* E-mail: mb2693@cornell.edu

Affiliation Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6953-1200

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Anikó Bíró

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Békéscsaba, Hungary
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Mind training, stress and behaviour—A randomised experiment

Yonas Alem,
Hannah Behrendt,
Michèle Belot,
Anikó Bíró

Published: November 12, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258172

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This study does not use MBSR

Posted by schase762 on 28 Apr 2022 at 18:03 GMT

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a specific, highly-structured program involving, among other things:

- Live interaction with an instructor and peer group. This intervention was pre-recorded and asynchronus.

- 26 hours of instruction spaced over eight weeks of 2.5 hour session and one full-day session. This intervention used 10 hours of instruction over four week of 30 minute sessions.

The authors' repeated use of MBSR as a short-hand for the intervention studied is not appropriate and should be corrected.

No competing interests declared.

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This study does not use MBSR

Posted by schase762 on 28 Apr 2022 at 18:03 GMT