Does ACT work for minorities or the poor?
The ACT literature is just now getting large enough to consider whether its impact is differential based on SES, ethnicity, gender, nationality, and the like. So far the news is good. There are now several randomized trials with minority populations. Some examples are Gregg, Callaghan, Hayes, & Glenn-Lawson (2007), Lundgren and Dahl (2006), and Gaudiano and Herbert (2006) Gregg, Callaghan, Hayes, and Glenn-Lawson is an RCT showing that a six hour ACT workshop with patient education works significantly better than a six hour patient education workshop alone in producing changes in diabetes self-management and blood glucose (at 3 month follow-up). The study was done at a public health clinic in a poor and largely Latino and Asian section of East Palo Alto. The percentage of minority participants was 76.5%. Lundgren and Dahl is an RCT done in South Africa showing that a 9 hour ACT protocol reduced seizures in epileptics 96% (90& were seizure free at a one yar follow up), while an attentio
