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This doctoral work addressed these two limitations in the extant literature by investigating: (1) whether standardized Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) benefitted objective physical health outcomes, that are also patient important and clinically meaningful, in the context of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA); and (2) how changes in emotional experience and/or regulation might be implicated in the relationship between mindfulness training and salutary physical health outcomes. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) investigated: (1) the efficacy of MBSR for reducing RA disease activity; and (2) the mediating effects of any changes in depression and/or anxiety, on changes in RA disease activity. 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