Table 1.

Demographic and frequency of practice data in both groups

	Meditation group	Control group	P-value
n (37)	17	20
Agea	21.76 ± 1.14	21.35 ± 1.81	0.48
Sexb
Male	7	10
Female	10	10	0.59
Educationa	15.59 ± 1.41	15.00 ± 1.29	0.65
Number of practicea
Homework	44.82 ± 3.37	42.00 ± 5.67	0.08
Group practice	5.88 ± 1.72	4.85 ± 1.95	0.48
n (44)	21	23
Agea	21.81 ± 1.17	21.43 ± 1.71	0.41
Sexb
Male	10	13
Female	11	10	0.55
Educationa	15.71 ± 1.38	15.04 ± 1.22	0.10
Number of practicea
Homework	44.05 ± 4.35	43.00 ± 5.68	0.49
Group practice	5.76 ± 1.89	5.22 ± 2.07	0.37

Note: Values are mean ± s.d. or n.

^aUnpaired t-test.

^bχ² test.