Group mindfulness-based cognitive therapy associated with reduced professional caregiver burden and improved quality of care in dementia: a multi-method study
Frontiers in Neurology August 24, 2026 Longyun Chen, Bencheng Wang, Ting Li et al.
Purpose To evaluate the association between an 8-week group Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) program and changes in professional dementia caregiver burden, perceived stress, and patient neuropsychiatric symptoms. Methods This retrospective multi-method study included 94 professional dementia caregivers at a psychiatric hospital in China (intervention: n = 48; control: n = 46). The...