Mindfulness
June 18, 2024
Alejandro Interian, Rachael B Miller, Chintan V Dave et al.
Experiences of difficulty (e.g., anxiety, difficult emotions) can occur during mindfulness practice. This study characterized the occurrence of such difficulties, defined as abnormal distress, dysregulation or agitation, among high suicide risk participants during a mindfulness-based intervention. The study also evaluated whether mindfulness difficulties were associated with baseline...
Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology
March 2023
Alejandro Interian, Rachael B Miller, Lauren M St Hill et al.
Introduction: Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by high-rates of depression with limited evidence-based treatment options to improve mood. Objective: To expand therapeutic options, we evaluated the feasibility and effect of a telehealth mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention adapted for PD (MBCT-PD) in a sample of participants with DSM-5 depressive disorders. Methods: Fifteen...
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
April 1, 2022
Megan S Chesin, Chintan V Dave, Catherine E Myers et al.
Knowledge of how to effectively prevent suicide attempt (SA) in high suicide risk patients who also misuse opioids is limited. In a subset of data from 36 participants with baseline opioid misuse in a randomized clinical trial testing adjunctive Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to prevent suicide among high suicide risk Veterans (n=18 per treatment condition), MBCT-S reduced the likelihood...
Behaviour Research and Therapy
October 1, 2021
Megan S Chesin, John G Keilp, Anna Kline et al.
Objective: To test whether Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Prevent Suicide (MBCT-S) is associated with improvement in attentional control, an objective marker of suicide attempt. Method: In the context of a randomized clinical trial targeting suicide risk in Veterans, computerized Stroop and emotion Stroop (E-Stroop) tasks were administered 3 times over 6-months follow-up to 135 high...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
August 31, 2021
Alejandro Interian, Megan S Chesin, Barbara Stanley et al.
Objective: This study evaluated whether Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Preventing Suicide Behavior (MBCT-S) effectively augmented treatment-as-usual enhanced for suicide prevention (eTAU).Methods: From December 2013 through March 2018, veterans (N = 140) at high risk for suicide were recruited mostly (88.6%) during a suicide-related inpatient admission and randomly assigned to either...
Contemporary Clinical Trials
September 2016
Anna Kline, Megan S Chesin, Miriam Latorre et al.
Although suicide ranks 10th as a cause of death in the United States, and 1st among active military personnel, there are surprisingly few evidence-based therapies addressing suicidality, and development of new treatments is limited. This paper describes a clinical trial testing a novel therapy for reducing suicide risk in military veterans. The intervention, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy...