Gupta Snehil, Dhawan Anju
Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, 462020, India.
National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) & Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India.
J Ayurveda Integr Med. 2022 Jul-Sep;13(3):100620. doi: 10.1016/j.jaim.2022.100620. Epub 2022 Sep 7.
Yoga and meditation-based interventions have been extensively utilized in the field of contemporary complementary and alternative medicine for various physical and mental health conditions. Ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has rekindled the interest of researchers in yoga and meditation for its preventive and therapeutic utilities. However, the available literature in this area has several methodological concerns, limiting formers' clinical utility. A comprehensive literature on this topic would stimulate researchers and guide them to conduct research on this topic with robust methodologies. The current review highlights the methodological issues with the yoga and meditation-based Research (henceforth, MBR), discusses some of the contentious issues, and provides future directions. The PubMed, Medline, and google scholar databases were searched to screen records dealing with the methodological issues on MBR. The search yielded 299 records, upon screening, only 24 articles were found suitable for the current study. Common methodological issues with MBR: lack of the consensus definitions of the yoga and meditations, interventions lacking theoretical framework of meditation; inadequate description of the study design; difficulty with participants recruitment, setting up the control groups, and blinding; difficulty in assessing the baseline characteristics of the participants, and validity issues with the outcome measures. A few research, however, have also highlighted the potential measures to overcome these methodological challenges. Yoga and meditation-based interventions are promising for several health conditions. However, literature suffers from considerable methodological issues, thus, limiting its utility in modern clinical practice. The study findings can stimulate and guide future research on this topic.
基于瑜伽和冥想的干预措施已在当代补充和替代医学领域广泛应用于各种身心健康状况。持续的新冠疫情重新激发了研究人员对瑜伽和冥想预防及治疗效用的兴趣。然而，该领域现有文献存在若干方法学问题，限制了其临床应用。关于这一主题的全面文献将激励研究人员，并指导他们采用可靠方法开展该主题的研究。本综述强调了基于瑜伽和冥想的研究（以下简称MBR）的方法学问题，讨论了一些有争议的问题，并提供了未来的方向。检索了PubMed、Medline和谷歌学术数据库，以筛选涉及MBR方法学问题的记录。检索得到299条记录，经筛选，仅发现24篇文章适合本研究。MBR常见的方法学问题：缺乏瑜伽和冥想的共识定义，干预措施缺乏冥想理论框架；研究设计描述不充分；参与者招募、设立对照组和盲法存在困难；难以评估参与者的基线特征，以及结果测量的有效性问题。然而，一些研究也强调了克服这些方法学挑战的潜在措施。基于瑜伽和冥想的干预措施对多种健康状况具有前景。然而，文献存在相当多的方法学问题，因此限制了其在现代临床实践中的应用。研究结果可激励和指导该主题的未来研究。
