Transcendental Meditation for the improvement of health and wellbeing in community-dwelling dementia caregivers [TRANSCENDENT]: A randomised wait-list controlled trial

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Leach, Matthew J ^a   Francis, Andrew ^b   Ziaian, Tahereh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affect; Caregiver; Carer; Clinical trial; Cognitive performance; Dementia; Quality of life; Randomised controlled trial; Stress; Transcendental meditation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COMMUNITY TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARALLEL DESIGN; PILOT STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION; WELLBEING; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FAMILY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; CAREGIVERS; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84929164252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-015-0666-8     Document Type: Article

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