What type of study is this?

This is a Human Clinical Trial study (also classified as: RCT).

What question did this study set out to answer?

This study aims to evaluate the effects of mindfulness training on attentional control in older adults.

November 21, 2025The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Effects of mindfulness training on sustained attention and mind-wandering in older adults: Results from the HealthyAgers randomized controlled trial

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MFMegan Fisher MPMadhura Phansikar JTJames Teng

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Randomised trial finds no significant improvements in sustained attention or mind-wandering in older adults with mindfulness training, suggesting limited benefits for cognitive aging.

Key Points

This study aims to evaluate the effects of mindfulness training on attentional control in older adults.
Randomized controlled trial with older adults aged 65-85 years.
Participants completed either Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction or an active control for eight weeks.
Attentional control metrics were assessed using Go/No-Go tasks and the Conners Continuous Performance Test.
No significant improvements in most metrics of sustained attention or mind-wandering compared to the active control.
A small effect was noted for self-reported task-unrelated thoughts.
Improvements in Go/No-Go dL measures were observed over time.

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Fisher et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6924e3f2c0ce034ddc34f142 https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf235

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Randomised trial finds no significant improvements in sustained attention or mind-wandering in older adults with mindfulness training, suggesting limited benefits for cognitive aging.

Effects of mindfulness training on sustained attention and mind-wandering in older adults: Results from the HealthyAgers randomized controlled trial

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Effects of mindfulness training on sustained attention and mind-wandering in older adults: Results from the HealthyAgers randomized controlled trial

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