Dataset for "Mindfulness for voices: An experimental analogue study"

Improving treatments for people who hear negative voices (e.g. with threatening or hostile content) is a clinical priority as they can cause high levels of distress and impairment to people in their everyday life. We know that people who are less distressed by voices tend to report using a more mindful response style (e.g. letting the voices come and go in their own time) compared to people who are more distressed by voices. This was the first experimental study to directly test the effect of instructing people to use a mindful acceptance response style compared to an attentional avoidance response style using an established voice simulation paradigm. The results of the study showed that adherence to the response style people were instructed to adopt was low, meaning that it was not possible to conclude whether training people to respond with a mindful response style to voices might result in less distress and anxiety and better cognitive functioning compared to an avoidant response style.

针对那些听到负面声音（例如含有威胁或敌意内容）的人群的治疗改进，是一项临床上的紧迫任务，因为这些声音可能导致他们在日常生活中遭受极高的痛苦和功能损害。研究表明，相较于那些深受声音困扰的人，那些受声音困扰程度较低的人往往倾向于报告采用更为警觉的应对风格（例如，让声音在它们自己的节奏中自然出现和消失）。这是首次实验性研究，旨在直接检验指导人们使用警觉接受式应对风格与注意力回避式应对风格的效果，采用了已建立的模拟声音范式。研究结果显示，受试者对所指导的应对风格的遵从度较低，这意味着无法得出结论，即训练人们以警觉的应对风格对声音做出反应是否可能减少痛苦、焦虑并改善认知功能，与采取回避式应对风格相比。