Frontiers in Public Health
October 28, 2026
Seok-In Yoon, Hui-Yeong Park, Jae-Hong Yoo et al.
Background As global aging accelerates, age-related psychophysiological conditions have emerged as major public health concerns. Promoting and sustaining vitality, an inherent human capacity, is essential for healthy aging and long-term well-being. The Mindfulness-based Vitality Promotion (MVP) program is a mindfulness-based behavioral intervention designed to enhance physical and psychological...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
April 20, 2026
Seoyoung Lee, Seok-In Yoon, Hsien-Yin Liao et al.
The self is increasingly conceptualized as an embodied, predictive process in contemporary cognitive and affective neuroscience. The brain continually infers the causes of both exteroceptive and interoceptive signals in order to minimize prediction error and maintain allostatic balance. Within this framework, emotion can be understood as an inference about changes in bodily states. Parallel...
Frontiers in Public Health
January 8, 2025
Seung Il Lee, Seok-In Yoon, Geum-Ju Song et al.
Background: Work stress has a detrimental impact on individual health and corporate efficiency and productivity. Mindfulness reduces workers' stress and burnout and increases work engagement and performance. Smartphone-based interventions could be an alternative to provide customized training without geographical or economic constraints. This study aims to investigate whether mobile mindfulness...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2025
Seok-In Yoon, Hui-Yeong Park, Chan Park et al.
3 citations
Hwabyung is a Korean culture-bound syndrome characterized by anger-related physical and psychological symptoms. Depressive disorder is a common mental disorder that occurs worldwide and is highly comorbid with Hwabyung. In traditional East Asian medicine, both Hwabyung and depression are associated with an imbalance in vital energy termed qi. Mindfulness induces psychosomatic balance, and...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2024
Seok-In Yoon, Hui-Yeong Park, Hyun Woo Lee et al.
3 citations
Hwabyung is a Korean culture-bound syndrome characterized by anger-related physical and psychological symptoms. Depressive disorder is a common mental illness occurring worldwide, and has been reported to have a high comorbidity rate with Hwabyung. For patients with depressive disorders, differential diagnosis and combined treatment for Hwabyung should be considered. Mindfulness and Qigong may...
Medicine
September 1, 2022
Seok-In Yoon, Seung Il Lee, Hyo-Weon Suh et al.
Background: Employee stress and well-being affect organizational efficiency and productivity, as well as physical and psychological health of employees. Mindfulness is believed to reduce stress, prevent diseases, and promote well-being. Mindfulness has been used as the main component of various smartphone-based healthcare applications. Previous studies have suggested that mindfulness...
Medicine
July 29, 2022
Si Myeong Lee, Hyo-Weon Suh, Hui-Yong Kwak et al.
Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the meditation-based intervention on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Methods: The following databases were searched up to April 2021: the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), EMBASE, Medline (via PubMed), PsycARTICLES, 4 Korean databases (Korean Medical Database [KMbase], Koreanstudies Information...
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
January 15, 2021
Hyo-Weon Suh, H. Jeong, Sunggyu Hong et al.
INTRODUCTION This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program in improving sleep in cancer survivors. METHODS Four electronic databases (Cochrane Library, EMBASE, PubMed, and PsycARTICLES) were searched for randomized controlled trials evaluating the effects of MBSR on the sleep of cancer survivors from their inception to May...
Integrative Medicine Research
August 27, 2020
Chan-Young Kwon, Sun-Yong Chung, Jong Woo Kim
Background: The significance of mindfulness meditation (MM) has increased in recent years in both clinical settings and public health. However, ways to implement MM as a disease prevention or treatment method in the elderly is still a major challenge. A comprehensive analysis of previous studies on MM programs for the elderly in Korea will help build future integrated care programs that...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
June 22, 2020
Chan-Young Kwon, Hui-Yong Kwak, Jong Woo Kim
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the world, and its deleterious effects on human domestic life, society, economics, and especially on human mental health are expected to continue. Mental health experts highlighted health issues this pandemic may cause, such as depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Mind-body intervention,...