summary

For this assignment, read the attached article. After reading it, you should write a 2-page summary of the article. Your summary should include all relevant information about the article (as would be provided by answering the questions below). Provide a complete APA-style citation for the article, as it would appear in the reference list. 

1. Who is/are the author(s) of this article?

Eva Rames Nissen, Maja O'Connor, Viktor Kaldo, Inger Højris, Michael Borre, Robert Zachariae, Mimi Mehlsen

2. What is the title of the article?

Internet‐delivered mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy for anxiety and depression in cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial

3. What year was this article published?

2019

4. What are the 2-3 main things you learned from the introduction?

This will differ based on individual responses.

5. What is one of the articles cited in the introduction? (Refer to it by the authors & the year it was published.)

This will differ based on individual responses.

6. What is the hypothesis?

They didn’t have a hypothesis.

7. How many participants were in the study?

150 were originally in the study, but 80 were in the final intervention group and 41 were in the final control group

8. Who were the participants (e.g., college students, infants, etc)?

Cancer survivors

9. Were the participants compensated for their participation?

No

10. What was/were the independent variable(s)?

The internet-based mindfulness intervention

11. How many levels of the independent variable(s) were there?

2

12. What were the levels of the IV(s)? That is, what groups were people divided into?

Intervention group and control group

13. What was the dependent variable?

Anxiety and depression levels

14. What materials were used in the study? Did participants complete a survey, use a computer program, were they interviewed, etc?

Anxiety and depression questionnaires, 8 one week modules for the intervention, training diaries

15. Summarize what the participants did.

Got screened for anxiety and depression, were either assigned to control or intervention, if intervention, went through 8 week program while keeping a diary for each week, also took subsequent anxiety and depression questionnaires at 5 weeks (during the study), 10 weeks, and 34 weeks after the study.

16. What type of research method was used? That is, was it an experiment, a correlational study, an observational study or a case study?

Experiment

17. How was the data analyzed (that is, what statistical analysis was used)?

T tests, chi square

18. Did the author(s) find a significant effect?

Yes

19. What did you learn from the figure (graph) in the results section?

Anxiety went down significantly, but depression had no significant results

20. Was the hypothesis supported?

N/A

21. Are there any ethical issues with this study? If so, what are they?

No

22. What can you conclude from this study?

The mindfulness training works for anxiety, but not for depression. Although, the participants were low in depression to begin with. Also, most people didn’t complete the whole program.

23. Did the author(s) make any suggestions for further investigation? If so, what suggestion was made?

They suggested a higher cutoff for screening participants for the depression results. Because a lot of older people dropped out due to not knowing how to work the online system, it might be best to do face to face.

24. How many references were cited in this article?

40

25. What did you think of the article?

This will differ based on individual responses.

26. Was it an effective study? Do you accept the results? Why or why not?

This will differ based on individual responses.