| Study characteristics |
| Methods |
RCT, USA |
| Participants |
25 nurses, pastoral care, respiratory therapy and social work personnel |
| Interventions |
1) Experimental: mindfulness‐based stress reduction programme: 8‐week program with approximately 2.5 hours teaching per week and homework practice with audiotapes for six days a week. Group sessions included teaching on topics such as communication skills, stress reactivity and self‐compassion and experiential exercises to help participants integrate these concepts.
2) Control: no intervention |
| Outcomes |
MBI, Brief Symptom Inventory |
| Identification |
We kindly received data from the author. |
| Notes |
MBI‐EE included in analysis 2.1 |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
"Participants were then randomly assigned to the treatment group or the wait‐list control group." (p.27) |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not reported. |
| Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes |
High risk |
Participants were not blinded. |
| Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
All outcomes |
High risk |
Participants were not blinded whereas outcomes are self‐reported. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
2/14 (14%) in the treatment group did not return completed inventories and were not taken into consideration in the analyses, which is below our pre‐defined cut‐off value. |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Low risk |
All outcomes reported. |
| Other bias |
Unclear risk |
We did not find any indications of other sources of bias. |
