# RETRACTION: The role of biofield energy treatment on psychological symptoms, mental health disorders, and stress‐related quality of life in adult subjects: A randomized controlled clinical trial

## TL;DR

This paper was retracted due to issues with the control group, inconsistent scoring, and implausible data in a study on biofield energy treatment's effects on mental health.

## Contribution

The paper originally claimed to present a clinical trial on biofield energy treatment's impact on psychological symptoms and mental health.

## Key findings

- The study was retracted due to an inappropriate control group and inconsistent questionnaire scoring.
- Functional biomarker values were found to be implausible and outside normal physiological ranges.
- The scientific claims about biofield energy treatment were deemed unsupported.

## Abstract

RETRACTION: M. K. Trivedi, A. Branton, D. Trivedi, S. Mondal, and S. Jana, “The Role of Biofield Energy Treatment on Psychological Symptoms, Mental Health Disorders, and Stress‐Related Quality of Life in Adult Subjects: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial,” Journal of General and Family Medicine 24, no. 3 (2023): 154–163, https://doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.606.

The above article, published online on 28 January 2023 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor‐in‐Chief, Masanobu Okayama; the Japan Primary Care Association; and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. The retraction has been agreed upon following an investigation into concerns raised by a third party, which revealed an inappropriate control group used as the placebo group of the trial, inconsistencies in the Psychological Questionnaire Scoring, highly implausible functional biomarker values that are out of the typical physiological range, and unsupported claims regarding the scientific evidence behind the biofield energy treatment. The authors were informed, however, the explanation and the partial raw data provided were deemed insufficient to address the concerns. Thus, the editors have lost confidence in the presented data and consider the results and conclusions of this manuscript insufficiently supported and substantially compromised. The authors disagree with the retraction.