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Attentional functioning after two online mindfulness-based group interventions: Acceptance and commitment therapy and a mindfulness-based emotional regulation intervention in anxiety disorders. Preliminary results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

G. Navarro-Oliver ,
E. Fernández-Jiménez ,
I. Torrea-Araiz ,
T. Castellanos-Villaverde ,
E. Vidal-Bermejo  and
A. Hospital-Moreno
G. Navarro-Oliver
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology And Mental Health, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
E. Fernández-Jiménez*
Affiliation:
Idipaz, Department Of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology And Mental Health, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
I. Torrea-Araiz
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology And Mental Health, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
T. Castellanos-Villaverde
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology And Mental Health, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
E. Vidal-Bermejo
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology And Mental Health, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
A. Hospital-Moreno
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology And Mental Health, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

The relationship between attentional functioning and mindfulness is an intensive field of study, mainly in face-to-face interventions. However, no neuropsychological study addressed the effect of online mindfulness-based interventions on this cognitive function.

Objectives

To assess changes on attentional functioning after two online mindfulness-based group interventions in adult patients with anxiety disorders.

Methods

This study was carried out in a Mental Health Unit in Spain (Colmenar Viejo, Madrid). Thirteen adult patients (age mean = 51.69 years, ranging from 33 to 69 years, S.D. = 11.56) with anxiety disorders completed the interventions. The group treatments were Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and a Mindfulness-based Emotional Regulation intervention, during 8 weeks, guided by two Clinical Psychology residents. Both interventions were carried out online. The dependent variables were the scores on the TMT-A (seconds), Digit span forward and Longest digit span forward (WAIS-IV). A comparison of paired-means was conducted. Statistical significance was set at p < .05.

Results

The normality assumption was met except for Longest digit span forward. The paired t-test showed statistically significant change between pre-treatment and post-treatment on TMT-A [t(12)= 3.81; p = 0.002; Cohen’s d = 1.056; statistical power observed = 94.0%], but not on Digit span forward (p = .45). Wilcoxon signed ranks test showed no statistically significant change on Longest digit span forward (p = .56).

Conclusions

These results show a large improvement on visual attention and speed of visuomotor tracking, but not on auditive attention, after both online mindfulness-based group interventions.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

acceptance and commitment therapyMindfulness-based Emotional RegulationOnline treatmentsAttention
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S787
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