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Effects of Sahaj Samadhi meditation on heart rate variability and depressive symptoms in patients with late-life depression – RETRACTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2021

Emily Ionson ,
Jayneel Limbachia ,
Soham Rej ,
Klajdi Puka ,
Ronnie I. Newman ,
Stephen Wetmore ,
Amer M. Burhan  and
Akshya Vasudev
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 220 , Issue 2 , February 2022 , pp. 101
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

We, the Editors of BJPsych, have retracted the following article: Effects of Sahaj Samadhi meditation on heart rate variability and depressive symptoms in patients with late-life depression, Ionson, E., Limbachia, J., Rej, S., Puka, K., Newman, R. I., Wetmore, S., Burhan, A. M. and Vasudev, A, The British Journal of Psychiatry (Reference Ionson, Limbachia, Rej, Puka, Newman, Wetmore, Burhan and Vasudev2019), Cambridge University Press, 214(4), pp. 218–224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.265

A preliminary analysis of results from this study was previously published in BJPsych Open. The preliminary analysis is not specified in the trial protocol.

Preliminary analysis from the trial is also cited as prior evidence from the literature in the introduction (SSM may have a beneficial effect on depression symptoms as well as HRV12).

Additionally, the trial protocol (NCT02149810) states that the secondary outcome measures will be assessed at weeks 0, 4, 8, 12, and 24. However, assessments at week 24 were offered to the intervention arm and not the control arm.

References

Ionson, E., Limbachia, J., Rej, S., Puka, K., Newman, R., Wetmore, S, Burhan, A. and Vasudev, A. (2019). Effects of Sahaj Samadhi meditation on heart rate variability and depressive symptoms in patients with late-life depression. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 214(4), 218–224. doi:10.1192/bjp.2018.265.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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