Implementation of Online Mindfulness With Peer Mentoring for Parent and Sibling Carers of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

There was no comparison group, so the study cannot show that the intervention caused the changes. Only 36 of the 101 family carers who completed baseline provided follow-up outcome data, and the paper says responders were more engaged with the intervention, so the results may not apply to carers who did not respond. All family carers were offered both online mindfulness and peer mentoring calls, so the contribution of either part cannot be separated. The online programme and peer mentoring calls were available only in English, so the study says little about carers who could not use English. Few fathers and brothers took part, and only one brother and no fathers were peer mentors, so the study says little about male carers or gender-matched mentoring. The sample size was too small to examine whether changes depended on engagement or previous mindfulness experience.

Do not read the pre-post improvements as proof the programme worked. The study offered online mindfulness and peer mentoring calls together, had no comparison group, and only 36 of 101 baseline participants completed follow-up outcome measures.