Mental Elf Blog post. Mindfulness is certainly a hot topic and it has been extensively covered on the Mental Elf, for example in André Tomlin’s summary of mindfulness evidence, which coincided with Mental Health Awareness Week (#MHAW15) last year. In fact, a recent Mental Elf blog estimated that: 600 mindfulness RCTs and 250 mindfulness systematic reviews and meta-analyses were published worldwide in 2014. In a recent meta-analysis published in Annals of Family Medicine, Demarzo and colleagues (Demarzo et al., 2015) set to investigate for the first time the application and effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in primary care patients.