RISING EVIDENCE ON MEDITATION

A Meta-analysis conducted by Madhay Goyal, M.D., M.P.H. was published on line January 6th in JAMA Internal Medicine. Dr. Goyal is assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. One of the objectives was to evaluate if the benefits of meditation could be similar to what we observe with placebo effect. Despite of limitations the trials showed better effect with meditation, what is most relevant in a time where we’ve seen many trials applying the concept of non inferiority. It’s a very important research center publishing relevant information in a very important Journal. This demonstrates the increase interest for this issue. Many conclusions came with this article, some sentences from the authors like: “… no harm came from meditation.”, also “Meditation programs appear to have an effect above and beyond the placebo.”; these two sentences can be observed in the most researches evolving this issue, that’s why we must encourage this practice, there’s enough evidence for we suggest for ours patients and for ourselves to make that.