A training programme involving automatic self-transcending meditation in late-life depression: preliminary analysis of an ongoing randomised controlled trial – RETRACTION

We, the Editors of BJPsych Open, have retracted the following article: Vasudev, A., Arena, A., Burhan, A. M., Ionson, E., Hirjee, H., Maldeniya, P., Wetmore, S. and Newman, R. I., BJPsych Open (2016), Cambridge University Press, 2(2), pp. 195–198. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjpo.bp.115.002394

The primary outcome measure listed in the trial protocol (NCT02149810) is change in heart rate variability. The primary outcome measure is not reported in this paper, the secondary outcome measure of depression severity is reported instead.

Additionally, the basis of this paper is a preliminary analysis of results. The preliminary analysis is not specified in the trial protocol.