Kian F Wong

2 papers in the library · publishing 2018

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Positive Effects of Mindfulness-Based Training on Energy Maintenance and the EEG Correlates of Sustained Attention in a Cohort of Nurses.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2018 Kian F Wong, James Teng, Michael W.L. Chee et al.

Mindfulness based training (MBT) is becoming increasingly popular as a means to improve general wellbeing through developing enhanced control over metacognitive processes. In this preliminary study, we tested a cohort of 36 nurses (mean age = 30.3, SD = 8.52; 2 male) who participated in an 8-week MBT intervention to examine the improvements in sustained attention and its energetic costs that...

DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00080 Full text P300 Event-related desynchronization Mindfulness-based training Nurses +2

Towards an Objective Measure of Mindfulness: Replicating and Extending the Features of the Breath-Counting Task.

Mindfulness 2018 Kian F Wong, Stijn A. A. Massar, Michael W.L. Chee et al.

Despite calls for objective measures of mindfulness to be adopted in the field, such practices have not yet become established. Recently, a breath-counting task (BCT) was proposed as a reliable and valid candidate for such an instrument. In this study, we show that the psychometric properties of the BCT are reproducible in a sample of 127 Asian undergraduates. Specifically, accuracy on the BCT...

DOI: 10.1007/s12671-017-0880-1 Full text Attentional lapses Breath counting Mind-wandering Objective measurement +1