Journal Article assessment and review
Review the article (see below and in e-reserves) for assignment four:
Askey-Jones, Ryan and Esther Flanagan. “Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Clinical Practice.” Mental Health Practice (2014) 19, 5. 28-35.
Use this document as your answer sheet. This assignment does not need to be written as an APA style paper. It is a worksheet assignment.
Fill in your answers after each question:
1. According to the literature review, what are the factors that have been identified to affect Depression and Social Functioning? What issues contribute to each of these factors?
2. What is the purpose of this study (in your own words)?
3. Provide the Research Question and hypothesis (in your own words).
4. Did they use a representative sample? Why or why not?
5. How many participants were in the final sample?
6. How many people in the sample reached the threshold for Depression?
7. What exclusionary criteria did the researchers use?
8. Why was a repeated measures ANOVA used?
9. BONUS QUESTION: What is the Independent Variable? How many levels does it have?
10. What is the Dependent Variable?
11. On the Repeated measures ANOVA results (p.32), which measures showed significant differences over time?
12. Describe the study’s findings. Did Mindfulness significantly impact depression and anxiety scores?
13. In your own words and in practical terms, what do you think the significance of this study is? Is it conclusive?
14. Name two limitations of the study.
