Reporting of positive results in randomized controlled trials of mindfulness-based mental health interventions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Coronado Montoya, Stephanie ^a,b   Levis, Alexander W ^a   Kwakkenbos, Linda ^a,b   Steele, Russell J ^a,b   Turner, Erick H ^c,d   Thombs, Brett D ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CINAHL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; EFFECT SIZE; EMBASE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINDFULNESS; PSYCINFO; REGISTER; SCOPUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FACTUAL DATABASE; LITERATURE; MENTAL STRESS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THERAPY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITIVE THERAPY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MINDFULNESS; PUBLICATION BIAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84963776240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153220     Document Type: Article

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