JMIR Formative Research
October 9, 2023
Tori Humiston, Caroline Cummings, Stephen J. Suss et al.
8 citations
BACKGROUND: Diabetes distress among adolescents with type 1 diabetes has been associated with suboptimal diabetes outcomes, including lower quality of life, increased diabetes self-management challenges, and suboptimal glycemic outcomes. OBJECTIVE: This study examined the feasibility and acceptability of a scalable self-led mindfulness-based intervention to reduce diabetes distress in...
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
June 7, 2022
Holly Hazlett-Stevens
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teaches mindfulness meditation to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and related forms of distress among a variety of patients. Much research has documented statistically significant reductions across a variety of self-report measures following MBSR, but researchers rarely assessed and reported the clinical significance of MBSR symptom reduction in...
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
November 23, 2021
Holly Hazlett-Stevens
1 citation
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an evidence-based health education program for medical patients with a variety of chronic conditions. MBSR also benefits health care providers themselves, decreasing work-related stress and preventing burnout. The objectives of this study were to describe an abbreviated MBSR curriculum developed for health care providers and to present initial...
Journal of Medical Psychology
November 6, 2020
Holly Hazlett-Stevens
Background: GAD symptom complaints are common in general medical settings, yet psychosocial intervention options provided within such settings are limited. Randomized controlled trials have found that MBSR is effective for symptom reduction, but such research typically delivered MBSR to small diagnostically homogeneous patient groups rather than to larger heterogeneous groups as provided in...
Holistic Nursing Practice
September 1, 2020
Holly Hazlett-Stevens
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a well-known mindfulness meditation program for patients that also may benefit health care providers and clinic staff themselves. An abbreviated MBSR program adapted into 6 weekly 75-minute sessions held during staff lunch breaks provided a feasible and acceptable staff training approach within the workplace setting.
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
September 29, 2018
Holly Hazlett-Stevens
2 citations
Background: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an evidence-based intervention developed to teach mindfulness meditation to a wide range of patients. Although the efficacy of MBSR has been established for a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions, measured outcomes rarely include physical symptoms related to anxiety, depression, and/or stress. The current study presents a...
Archives of Neuroscience
July 14, 2017
Holly Hazlett-Stevens
6 citations
: Mindfulness meditation and mindfulness-based interventions offer numerous clinical benefits related to improved affect regulation and emotional functioning. Psychological and emotional benefits of dispositional mindfulness, conceptualized as an individual difference trait found among the meditation-naïve, also have been demonstrated. This literature review article describes five specific...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
June 2017
Holly Hazlett-Stevens, Yelena Oren
This randomized controlled investigation examined the effectiveness of a self-help bibliotherapy format of the evidence-based mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention. College students seeking stress reduction were randomly assigned to a 10-week MBSR bibliotherapy intervention group (n = 47) or a no-treatment control group (n = 45). Self-report measures were collected at baseline...