Impact of spiritual meditation on drug addiction recovery and wellbeing: a systematic review
It is well recognized throughout the history that religiosity, spirituality and the meditation practice have significant effects to the physical and mental health. Hence, this paper interested to evaluate the effectiveness of spiritual meditation on drug addiction recovery and its effects on psyc...
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/7331/1/FH02-FP-20-45032.pdf http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/7331/ |
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| Summary: | It is well recognized throughout the history that religiosity, spirituality and the meditation
practice have significant effects to the physical and mental health. Hence, this paper interested
to evaluate the effectiveness of spiritual meditation on drug addiction recovery and its
effects on psychological and mental health aspects. Three main databases in medicinal and
psychology field were screened to identify the eligible studies which are PubMed, Cochrane
and Scopus by using Boolean expression. Fourteen papers were included in this review.
Standardized mean differences were calculated based on the intergroup mean difference
and standard deviation followed by Cochran’s Q and I2
determination for heterogeneity
analysis. The mean differences were statistically pooled in the meta-analysis and presented
as a forest plot. The risk of bias was high for each study and assessed using the Jadad scale.
The meta-analysis showed significant differences in across studies for addiction related
outcome (I2
=27%, 95% CI: -1.703, -0.454), anxiety (I2
=0%, 95% CI: -0.874, -0.634) and
stress (I2
=100%, 95% CI: -0.874, -0.634). In general, spiritual meditation may promote the
addiction recovery as well as improve the psychological and mental health outcomes by
reducing the depression, anxiety and stress symptoms. In conclusion, randomized control
trial on spiritual meditation gave positive impact on the addiction behavior as well as
mental health and clarifies its reliability on addiction therapy problems. |
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