GMS journal for medical education
2025
Benno Brinkhaus, Barbara Stöckigt, Claudia M Witt et al.
Stress-related illnesses are on the rise among medical students and doctors in Germany and internationally. Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) methods are increasingly being used to reduce stress. MBM courses are now being offered to students at medical faculties in Germany, including Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and e.g. at the universities of Magdeburg, Witten-Herdecke, Essen and Ulm. The...
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
October 18, 2018
Michael Mikolasek, Claudia M Witt, Jürgen Barth
83 citations
BACKGROUND: Cancer is highly prevalent worldwide and can cause high levels of distress in patients, which is often neglected in medical care. Smartphone apps are readily available and therefore seem promising to deliver distress-reducing interventions such as mindfulness and relaxation programs. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a mindfulness and relaxation app for...
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
February 2018
Michael Mikolasek, Jonas Berg, Claudia M Witt et al.
This systematic review aims to summarize eHealth studies with mindfulness- and relaxation-based interventions for medical conditions and to determine whether eHealth interventions have positive effects on health. A comprehensive search of five databases was conducted for all available studies from 1990 to 2015. Studies were included if the intervention was mainly technology delivered and...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
June 7, 2015
Barbara Stöckigt, Florian Besch, Florian Jeserich et al.
Background. The aim of this study was to investigate the nature of the relationships between healers and their clients in Germany. Methods. An interdisciplinary research team performed semistructured interviews with healers and clients and participatory observation of healing sessions. All interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using content analysis. Results. Fifteen...
Anthropology & medicine
2015
Barbara Mh Stöckigt, Florian Besch, Florian Jeserich et al.
Spiritual healers in contemporary Germany comprise a heterogeneous and growing group, yet little data exists about them. Therefore, one aim of this study was to learn about which biographical aspects and events were important to the process of becoming a healer and which biographical aspects drove clients to consult a healer. The study was based on semi-structured interviews combined with...