Mindfulness and yoga may be effective supplements to pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy for people with mental disorders, while qigong and tai chi show limited evidence.

The efficacy of meditation-based mind-body interventions for mental disorders: A meta-review of 17 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials.

Mindfulness apps show promise in improving well-being and mental-health, but results should be interpreted carefully due to limited evidence and heterogeneity in the studies.

The efficacy of mindfulness meditation apps in enhancing users' well-being and mental health related outcomes: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Mindfulness-based interventions can be effective in improving mental health symptoms in children and adolescents, but more rigorous research is needed.

Review: Effectiveness of mindfulness in improving mental health symptoms of children and adolescents: a meta-analysis.

Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are effective in improving many biopsychosocial conditions and are relatively safe, but more high-quality research is needed to confirm their effectiveness and cost-effectiveness for various health conditions.

Mindfulness-based interventions: an overall review

Meditation programs can moderately reduce negative dimensions of psychological stress, but more robust studies are needed to determine their effects on positive mental health and stress-related behaviors.

Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Online mindfulness-based interventions have a small but significant positive impact on mental health, particularly stress, with guided interventions showing higher effects than unguided ones.

Effectiveness of online mindfulness-based interventions in improving mental health: A review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Mindfulness-based therapy is a promising intervention for treating anxiety and mood problems in clinical populations.

The effect of mindfulness-based therapy on anxiety and depression: A meta-analytic review.

Mindfulness meditation shows promise in treating psychopathologies like depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and substance abuse, with potential relevance to psychiatric comorbidity.

Mindfulness Meditation and Psychopathology.

Mindfulness meditation is a safe, portable, and cost-effective self-management strategy for major depressive disorder and PTSD, but not yet recommended for generalized anxiety disorder.

The Emerging Role of Mindfulness Meditation as Effective Self-Management Strategy, Part 1: Clinical Implications for Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Anxiety.

Yoga and meditation can effectively treat neurological and psychiatric disorders by promoting neurogenesis, restoring chemical equilibrium, and reducing stress, offering relief and reducing reliance on conventional medication.

Yoga and Meditation in the Treatment of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Meditation, yoga, and mindfulness show moderate effects on depression, anxiety, and stress in tertiary education students, but their effectiveness decreases significantly when compared to active control.

The Effects of Meditation, Yoga, and Mindfulness on Depression, Anxiety, and Stress in Tertiary Education Students: A Meta-Analysis

Mindfulness meditation practices, such as MBSR and MBCT, are effective adjunct treatments for psychiatric disorders, improving general psychological health, pain management, and anxiety symptoms.

Mindfulness meditation practices as adjunctive treatments for psychiatric disorders.

Mindfulness interventions with youth are generally helpful and do not carry iatrogenic harm, with larger effects on psychological symptoms and clinical settings.

Mindfulness Interventions with Youth: A Meta-Analysis

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in addition to usual care significantly reduces major depression relapses and anxiety symptoms in psychiatric patients.

Mindfulness based cognitive therapy for psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Mindfulness interventions show promise in treating depression, anxiety, and addictive disorders, with promising effects on emotion regulation, attention regulation, body awareness, and self-perception.

Applications of mindfulness in psychiatry

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) can reduce stress levels in healthy people, but more research is needed to determine its specific effects compared to other nonspecific treatments.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction for stress management in healthy people: a review and meta-analysis.

Mindfulness meditation improves physical and mental health, but the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear.

The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation

Mindfulness-oriented meditation improves self-related character scales in healthy individuals, potentially reducing the risk of personality disorders.

Mindfulness-oriented meditation improves self-related character scales in healthy individuals.

Mindfulness meditation is an effective strategy for reducing workplace stress and burnout in nurses and nursing students, but further larger-scale, rigorous research is needed for validation.

The effectiveness of mindfulness meditation for nurses and nursing students: An integrated literature review.

Mindful parenting interventions can improve parent-child interactions by reducing stress, preoccupation, and dysfunctional patterns, and enhancing self-nourishing attention.

Mindful Parenting in Mental Health Care

The effectiveness of mindfulness and meditation in treating mental health disorders.

These studies suggest that mindfulness and meditation can be effective in treating various mental health disorders, though more rigorous and high-quality research is needed to confirm their effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.