Study design
The study will assess one treatment condition (mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression, adapted from Vietnam; MBCT-VN) and one control condition (treatment-as-usual: Buddhist Meditation). The study uses a cluster randomization assignment design to allocate adult participants to the treatment condition or the control condition. Randomization was performed using the SAS 9.4 random number generator. Pagoda has served as the cluster unit, with each pagoda assigned to the treatment condition or the control condition; i.e., all project participants at a particular pagoda will receive either the treatment condition or the control condition. This approach is used…