Types of controls in meditation research
Posted in Study Summary, general, meditation, research, research methodology on Nov 9th, 2009
Examining randomised controlled trials exploring meditation in my review, control methods were presumptively categorized according to their face-validity into low, moderate or high face validity categories.
The low face-validity controls used strategies that were:
• Passive and unstructured: Participants were involved in minimal or no activity relating to the trial and had no interaction with researchers [...]
