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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Samuel Yeung Shan Wong
Samuel Yeung Shan Wong*
Affiliation:
School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Email: yeungshanwong@cuhk.edu.hk
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 210 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 85
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017 

We thank Mahendran and colleagues for their comments and suggestions on our published study Reference Wong, Yip, Mak, Mercer, Cheung and Ling1 . We agree that it would be helpful to have more objective measurements for attention, affective or cognitive changes which might not have been captured by self-reported questionnaires. For the potential confounding effects of religious or cultural beliefs on outcomes, we have only collected data on religious beliefs in our study, with 36.7% of participants being Christians/Catholics, 10.2% being Buddhists/Taoists, and 53.1% being non-religious. We did not find a significant effect of religious beliefs on our psychological outcomes in this study.

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1 Wong, SYS, Yip, BHK, Mak, WWS, Mercer, S, Cheung, EYL, Ling, CYM, et al Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy v. group psychoeducation for people with generalised anxiety disorder: randomized controlled trial. Br J Psychiatry 2016; 209: 68–75.Google Scholar

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