Death Studies
August 25, 2022
Xiang-Zi Ji, Jia-Yuan Zhang
Abstract Intensive care units (ICUs) nurses experience a high level of death anxiety. Interventions that reduce death anxiety are needed. We conducted a nonrandomized study with 66 ICU nurses. The 34 in the intervention group received an 8-week tailored mindfulness-based intervention and the 32 in the control group received no intervention. Both groups completed pre and post-tests of death...
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
February 3, 2022
Jia-Yuan Zhang, Sha‐sha Li, Li-na Meng et al.
ABSTRACT Background With the development of positive psychology, posttraumatic growth research on cancer patients has attracted increasing attention from researchers. It is immensely important to effectively increase the posttraumatic growth level of cancer patients and improve their quality of life. Objectives To investigate the effectiveness of a nurse-led mindfulness-based Tai Chi Chuan...
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
September 1, 2019
Jia-Yuan Zhang, Xiang-Zi Ji, Li-na Meng et al.
Background Sub-threshold depression (SD) has been associated with impairments in adolescent health which increase the rate of major depression. Researchers have shown the effectiveness of mindfulness on mental health, however whether the traditional mindful skills were suitable for youngsters, it was not clear. This study investigated the effects of a tailed Mindfulness-based stress reduction...
Psychology, Health & Medicine
January 2019
Jia-Yuan Zhang, Yu-Xia Cui, Yu-Qiu Zhou et al.
Low well-being is common among Chinese pregnant women but few effective interventions currently exist to improve prenatal stress and negative emotions. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has been proved to be effective in reducing stress and rarely studies were focused on Chinese pregnant women. The aim of the current paper is to investigate the effects of 8-week MBSR on prenatal stress,...
Psychology, Health & Medicine
January 2017
Jia-Yuan Zhang, Yu-Qiu Zhou, Zi-Wei Feng et al.
Breast cancer (BC) patients in China suffered from a variety of psychology stress such as perceived stress and anxiety, posttraumatic growth (PTG) as a positive factor could promote their psychology health and quality of life. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on promoting PTG, decreasing perceived stress and anxiety of Chinese BC...