Table 4.

Reviews of evidence-based MBPs that include data on adverse events.

First author, year	Number and type of studies in the review	Percentage of studies in the review that reported data on AEs/SAEs	Findings for AEs/SAEs	Comments
Goyal, 2014	47 RCTs comparing MBPs or other meditation-based programs to active controls	19%	None reported
Banks, 2015	12 studies (various designs) of MBPs for PTSD	83%	AEs in 10.6% of participants	symptom increases not clinically significant, anxiety during meditation practices did not lead to pre-post deterioration, 1 trauma memory triggered seen as within purpose of intervention
Kuyken, 2016	9 RCTs of MBCT for depressive relapse	56%	SAEs in 1.94% of participants (range: 0 to 5.5%)	SAEs no more common in MBCT than in control groups; SAEs unrelated to participation in MBCT
Wong, 2018	231 RCTs of MBSR or MBCT	16%	AEs in 1% of MBP participants, 0.9% of control participants	AEs no more common in MBPs than in control groups