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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain Med. 2009 Nov;10(8):1395–1407. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2009.00746.x

Table 2.

Mindfulness measures results for meditation and control group

Baseline
 Post Program
 4 month
Measure Meditation Group n = 16 Control Group n = 19 Meditation Group n = 16 Control Group n = 19 Meditation Group n = 16 Control Group n = 19
Five facet mindfulness questionnaire,* (Mean ± SD)
 Observe 27.8 ± 4.6 30.4 ± 5.1 27.8 ± 5.2 29.7 ± 5.7 28.1 ± 4.6 31.0 ± 5.3
 Describe 30.6 ± 6.0 30.2 ± 5.0 29.8 ± 5.6 30.1 ± 5.3 30.4 ± 5.6 29.8 ± 6.0
 Act with awareness 30.0 ± 6.0 31.3 ± 4.3 29.0 ± 5.1 31.6 ± 4.5 28.9 ± 6.6 32.9 ± 4.9
 Nonjudge 29.2 ± 7.2 29.3 ± 6.1 27.8 ± 6.4 29.4 ± 5.8 27.2 ± 6.8 29.8 ± 5.7
 Nonreact 22.7 ± 3.3 21.5 ± 4.4 23.2 ± 3.1 23.8 ± 4.3 23.3 ± 4.4 23.1 ± 4.4
Mindful attention awareness scale,† (Mean ± SD) 4.4 ± 0.8 4.7 ± 0.6 4.4 ± 0.6 4.7 ± 0.5 4.3 ± 0.9 4.9 ± 0.6
*

Range 8–40 for each subscale, except nonreact 7–35, higher is better.

†

Range 1–6, higher is better.