Creating and Optimizing Mindfulness Measures to Enhance and Normalize Clinical Evaluation (COMMENCE)

Mindfulness, or the ability to pay attention to the present moment without judgment, has become an increasingly studied health behavior in clinical research trials. A major challenge of mindfulness research has been how to most effectively measure and assess mindfulness using self-reported survey instruments. New statistical and self-reported measurement development methods exist that hold great promise to significantly change the landscape of mindfulness outcomes measurement. This study seeks to apply these new instrument development methods to create a new measurement system of mindfulness and advance our understanding of important clinical processes and mechanisms of action associated with good response to intervention.