Transcendental Meditation versus exposure therapy in veterans with PTSD
The Lancet Psychiatry / U.S. DoD funded · 2018 · Anchor randomised controlled trial
Recorded summary
In 203 veterans, Transcendental Meditation was non-inferior to prolonged exposure therapy for change in clinician-assessed PTSD symptoms at three months.
Recorded limitations
One trial of a structured 12-session practice; it does not test passive or sub-audible mantra delivery.
Evidence and provenance
Chapter Trust Factor uses a minimum of three distinct qualifying studies. Publication records retain their own evidence and assessment.
Study design and assessment
- design
- Anchor randomised controlled trial
- assessment
- Not recorded
- trust Factor
- score
- 2
- scope
- Paper
- status
- assessed
- randomized Controlled Trial
- true
- blinding
- not-confirmed
- peer Reviewed
- false
- basis
- Randomized controlled design recorded in the publication-specific design or bibliographic indexing.
- sources
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30449712/
- review Scope
- Existing publication-specific assessments and bibliographic indexing; no blanket full-text appraisal.
- assessed At
- 2026-10-27
- jadad
- status
- unassessed
- score
- Not recorded
- evidence
- Not recorded
Topics and recorded topic scores
- key
- language:i
- title
- Mantra meditation: cognition, creativity, mental health and cardiovascular outcomes
- collection
- language
- trust Score
- 2
Citation snapshot and identifiers
- id
- portal-b171bb6d1a29
- doi
- 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30384-5
- pmid
- Not recorded
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- Not recorded
- citations By Collection
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- Not recorded
Complete approved library record
- id
- portal-b171bb6d1a29
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- Not recorded
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- None recorded
- title
- Transcendental Meditation versus exposure therapy in veterans with PTSD
- journal
- The Lancet Psychiatry / U.S. DoD funded
- neurotransmitters
- None recorded
- year
- 2018
- authors
- design
- Anchor randomised controlled trial
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- Portal source record
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- Not recorded
- doi
- 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30384-5
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30384-5
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language
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Clinical & self-report
- targets
- None recorded
- priority
- 1
- quotes
- None recorded
- summary
- In 203 veterans, Transcendental Meditation was non-inferior to prolonged exposure therapy for change in clinician-assessed PTSD symptoms at three months.
- limitation
- One trial of a structured 12-session practice; it does not test passive or sub-audible mantra delivery.
- citation Count
- Not recorded
- paper Trust Assessment
- score
- 2
- scope
- Paper
- status
- assessed
- randomized Controlled Trial
- true
- blinding
- not-confirmed
- peer Reviewed
- false
- basis
- Randomized controlled design recorded in the publication-specific design or bibliographic indexing.
- sources
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30449712/
- review Scope
- Existing publication-specific assessments and bibliographic indexing; no blanket full-text appraisal.
- assessed At
- 2026-10-27
- citations By Collection
- language
- Not recorded
- topics
- key
- language:i
- title
- Mantra meditation: cognition, creativity, mental health and cardiovascular outcomes
- collection
- language
- trust Score
- 2
- journal Key
- journal Label
- The Lancet Psychiatry / U.S. DoD funded
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- language-i-portal-b171bb6d1a29
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- portal-b171bb6d1a29
- title
- Transcendental Meditation versus exposure therapy in veterans with PTSD
- journal
- The Lancet Psychiatry / U.S. DoD funded
- year
- 2018
- authors
- design
- Anchor randomised controlled trial
- urls
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30384-5
- quotes
- None recorded
- citation Count
- Not recorded
- source Pages
- None recorded
- targets
- None recorded
- categories
Clinical & self-report
- doi
- 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30384-5
- pmid
- Not recorded
- summary
- In 203 veterans, Transcendental Meditation was non-inferior to prolonged exposure therapy for change in clinician-assessed PTSD symptoms at three months.
- limitation
- One trial of a structured 12-session practice; it does not test passive or sub-audible mantra delivery.
- paper Trust Assessment
- score
- 2
- scope
- Paper
- status
- assessed
- randomized Controlled Trial
- true
- blinding
- not-confirmed
- peer Reviewed
- false
- basis
- Randomized controlled design recorded in the publication-specific design or bibliographic indexing.
- sources
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30449712/
- review Scope
- Existing publication-specific assessments and bibliographic indexing; no blanket full-text appraisal.
- assessed At
- 2026-10-27
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- language
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- 1
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- i
- topic Title
- Mantra meditation: cognition, creativity, mental health and cardiovascular outcomes
- trust Score
- 2
- jadad
- status
- unassessed
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- Not recorded
- condition Evidence
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- ptsd
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- field
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- text
- Transcendental Meditation versus exposure therapy in veterans with PTSD
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- PTSD
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ptsd
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2
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- not-indexed
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