The Psycho-Education Programme is designed to be comparable to MBCT in level of structure, therapist's contact and attention, with participants required to adhere to an agenda during sessions with homework assignments of similar duration.
The children received daily physical activity homework of about 10 minutes' duration prepared by the physical education teachers.
A meta-regression of other meta-analyses [ 39] (47 RCT and 32 prevention programs) found larger effects for programs targeting high-risk individuals, samples with more females, samples with older adolescents, programs with a shorter duration and with homework assignments, and programs delivered by mental health professional interventionists versus teachers.
Number of CBT sessions attended, whether they were face-to-face or telephone, their duration and percentage completion of homework will be recorded.
In addition to attending weekly classes, participants in both groups were encouraged to complete 45 minutes of homework six days per week for the duration of the 8-week treatments.
Women are also asked to indicate the frequency and duration of relaxation sessions and other homework assignments.
Each session has an average duration of 45 minutes and includes homework assignments and a mood diary.
A number of moderators were considered: age, gender, context of training (individual or group), duration (expressed in days), use of homework (repetition of relaxation exercises with or without audiotapes), psychometric questionnaire used and studies geographical provenience.
All of the plenary sessions were PowerPoint presentations of more than 50-min duration that largely repeated information from our homework assignments.
For MBCT, also a weighted percentage of formal, informal, and CBT exercises was used as a second measure of homework compliance, because these MBCT exercises differ in their duration.
Differences in neuropsychological functioning between these two samples led to a shorter duration and less demanding cognitive strategies and homework assignments in the programme for schizophrenia compared to those in mood disorder.
