News Finding: A New Connection
  
  The training also helps the patient and caregiver accept new ways of communicating, scientists say.
Paper Finding: In this analysis, the improvement amounted to 1.6 points for the patient group and 1.9 points for the caregiver group.
News Context: This is the first study to show that the caregiver and the patient both benefit from undergoing mindfulness training together. A New Connection
  
  The training also helps the patient and caregiver accept new ways of communicating, scientists say. "The practice of mindfulness places both participants in the present and focuses on positive features of the interaction, allowing for a type of connection that may substitute for the more complex ways of communicating in the past.
Paper Context: In a further analysis with data from this outlier excluded, the average depression score decreased by 1.7 points (F 1,34 ¼ 11.28, P ¼ .002). In this analysis, the improvement amounted to 1.6 points for the patient group and 1.9 points for the caregiver group. Although the absolute magnitude of these effects is small, these values should be interpreted in light of the fact that 70% of the participants started out in the normal range, such that in most participants there was very little room for improvement.