BMJ OpenDecember 3, 2025Lovisa Af Ekenstam, Per Nyman, Olov Änghagen et al.
Introduction: Psychosocial stress is a major public health concern, contributing to significant suffering and costs to society. There is a lack of effective interventions that could be offered at an early stage to people who need to reduce their stress in life. Recent advances in psychology have provided evidence-based exercises suitable for testing in an entirely digital intervention. This...
Depressive symptoms after coronary events are associated with a worse prognosis. When changing the focus from psychopathology towards a resilience framework, treatments such as mindfulness meditation could offer novel ways to address psychological distress among coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. We studied the feasibility of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for CAD patients with...
BMC PsychologySeptember 13, 2018Oskar Lundgren, Peter Garvin, Margareta Kristenson et al.
Psychological distress with symptoms of depression and anxiety is common and unrecognized in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Efforts have been made to treat psychological distress in CAD with both conventional methods, such as antidepressant drugs and psychotherapy, and non-conventional methods, such as stress management courses. However, studies focusing on the experiences of...