Table 1 PICO criteria

Population

Adult patients (aged 18 years or older) with a clinical diagnosis of epilepsy will be included.

Interventions

Trials which solely focus on, or incorporate a Mindfulness intervention where the mindfulness data can be extracted, will be selected. As with many other mind-body interventions, Mindfulness as a therapeutic intervention is inherently varied and heterogeneous. Thus different forms, duration and frequency of Mindfulness interventions will be included [45].

Comparator

Usual care or any active comparator

Outcome measures

Confidence

Well-being

Anxiety depression

Social participation

Perceived self-health

Quality of Life

Physiological outcomes e.g., blood pressure

Seizure frequency; seizure duration