Current Oncology
November 26, 2025
Lauren Deckelbaum, Nikita Guarascio, Marie-Pierre Bastien et al.
Healthcare providers in oncology experience exceptionally high stress rates. Research emphasizes that stress management programs must be quick to implement, flexible to accommodate demanding schedules, cost-effective, accessible to all staff, and tailored to the needs of oncology personnel. Programs that fail to meet these criteria often struggle with uptake and sustainability. This...
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
May 20, 2023
Cloé Brami, Serge Sultan, Léonore Robieux et al.
Improving medical students' wellbeing and empowerment through curricular activities is a topic of interest worldwide. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are increasingly implemented in medical education often as part of elective courses. To better understand training outcomes and adjust curriculum to students' needs, we will explore why will medical students participate in meditation-based...
Research Square
September 19, 2022
Cloé Brami, Franck Zenasni, Liza Hettal et al.
preprint
Background: Improving student wellness through curricular activities is a topic of interest in medical school. Both distress and well-being are related to medical student empathy. Numerous data suggest that learning mindfulness skills help to reduce anxiety, stress and overall psychological distress. Moreover, there are still poor data on the impact of MBSR on medical students' empathy and...
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
October 23, 2020
Martin Lamothe, Émélie Rondeau, Michel Duval et al.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little data is available on the effect of mindfulness amongst pediatric hematology-oncology professionals. The purpose was to further document change in biological and psychological stress following a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program. MATERIALS AND METHODS We led two pre-post interventional studies (n = 12 and n = 25) and measured changes on hair cortisol...
BMJ Open
2018
Martin Lamothe, P. McDuff, Yves D Pastore et al.
Objectives To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)-based intervention and determine if the intervention is associated with a significant signal on empathy and emotional competencies. Design Two pre–post proof-of-concept studies. Setting Participants were recruited at the University of Montreal’s Psychology Department (Study 1) and the CHU...
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
February 1, 2016
Martin Lamothe, Émélie Rondeau, Catherine Malboeuf-Hurtubise et al.
BACKGROUND Emotional competencies are extremely important for healthcare providers exposed to patients' suffering. The effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has been studied in this population. However, it is unclear whether capacities identified as core for care are modified favourably by this intervention. OBJECTIVES (1) To identify outcomes in studies on the effect of MBSR in...
Trials
May 10, 2013
Catherine Malboeuf-Hurtubise, Marie Achille, Serge Sultan et al.
Background: Individuals living with cancer must learn to face not only the physical symptoms of their condition, but also the anxiety and uncertainty related to the progression of the disease, the anticipation of physical and emotional pain related to illness and treatment, the significant changes implied in living with cancer, as well as the fear of recurrence after remission....