NEW438H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Internal Validity, Randomized Controlled Trial
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Summary (schmidt): fibromyalgia article found it wasn"t better than control group. Summary (5 different pain disorders) mbsr, uncontrolled, over large sample, had differentiated results: different types of pain (chronic pain and fibromyalgia don"t respond to meditation), but neck and back pain do. Not a matter of pain, but what kind of pain. Depression and anxiety are popular emotional disorders that the research has focused on. Emotional side: depression and anxiety, physical side: pain. Mbct includes mbsr (breathing, body scan, relaxation, mindfulness), but adds cognitive therapy part. First two articles: mbct with depression i. e. cold fusion: h bomb creates he out of h forces h binding. This lab reported that if fusion was possible, would solve all energy problems in the world. All labs all over the world tried to replicate it. This is an example of a study that could not be replicated. If this cannot be replicated, then the study is not considered valid.
