Frontiers in Psychology
June 12, 2026
Mengyu Li, Hao Chen
Mindfulness has been widely conceptualized and measured across various fields. With increasing attention to the healthy usage of social media, the present study aims to develop a measurement scale for social media mindfulness, intended to guide users towards purposeful and intentional usage, thereby alleviating the adverse effects on mental health caused by obsessive or addictive use of social...
Brain Communications
2026
Ying Wang, Chenglong Cao, Hao Chen et al.
Microvascular decompression is the standard surgical intervention for classical trigeminal neuralgia attributed to NVC. However, up to 30% of patients experience poor outcomes despite technically successful surgery, suggesting non-peripheral mechanisms. This study investigates whether central neural reorganization-manifested as altered cortico-subcortical connectivity and white matter...
Drug Design Development and Therapy
October 1, 2025
Jin Zha, Hao Chen, Zijie Sun et al.
4 citations
In elderly patients with preoperative anxiety who undergo gastrointestinal tumor surgery, administering a low-dose intravenous esketamine injection (0.25 mg/kg) during anesthesia induction can decrease the incidence of POD and improve early postoperative cognitive function.
Frontiers in Public Health
2025
Chao Liu, Yehui Tu, Li-Jen Lin et al.
This study examined the effectiveness of a short video app-guided Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) intervention in enhancing interpersonal mindfulness, empathy, interdisciplinary collaboration, affective states, and workplace well-being among working professionals. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted with 100 full-time employees (aged 25-60), randomly assigned to an intervention...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2025
Ye-Hui Tu, Chao Liu, Zheng-Hao Gao et al.
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a short video app-guided mindfulness meditation intervention in improving psychological flexibility and self-compassion and reducing rumination and depressive symptoms among failed entrepreneurs. A randomized controlled trial was conducted with 100 recently failed entrepreneurs (aged 25-55), who were randomly assigned to either an intervention...
European Journal of Psychology Open
July 1, 2024
Hao Chen, Chao Liu, Szu-Erh Hsu et al.
Abstract: Objective: The study investigated the effects of a short video-app-guided loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on affect, oneness belief, and proenvironmenal behavior. Methods: We recruited 93 college students from a university in China and randomized them to an LKM group (n = 47) and a wait-list control group (n = 46). The app-group engaged in an 8-week LKM intervention, while the...
BioPsychoSocial Medicine
May 10, 2024
Hao Chen, Chao Liu, Kan Wu et al.
3 citations
The study investigated the effects of loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on doctors' communication anxiety, trust, calling, and defensive medicine practice. This study recruited 94 doctors from a hospital in China, randomized them to an LKM group (n = 47), and waited for the control group (n = 47). The experimental group accepted an 8-week LKM interference while the waiting for the control group...
Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS
October 30, 2023
Chao Liu, Hao Chen, Ayuan Zhang et al.
The study investigated the effects of a short video app guided loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on college students' mindfulness, self-compassion, positive psychological capital, and suicide ideation. The purpose of the study is to investigate the intervention effect of LKM training on suicidal ideation among college students with the help of the short video application and to provide an...
BMC Women's Health
October 10, 2022
Chao Liu, Hao Chen, Fang Zhou et al.
Objective This study investigated the effects of mobile health application designed based on mindfulness and social support theory on parenting self-efficacy and postpartum depression symptoms of puerperae. Methods We recruited 130 puerperae from a hospital in China and randomized them to an App use group (n = 65) and a waiting control group (n = 65). The App group underwent an 8-week app use...
BMC Psychology
May 29, 2022
Chao Liu, Hao Chen, Yu-Chao Liang et al.
This study investigated the effects of the loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on employees' mindfulness, affect, altruism and knowledge hiding. In total, 100 employees were recruited from a knowledge-based enterprise in China and randomly divided into the LKM training group (n = 50) and the control group (n = 50). The LKM training group underwent LKM training for 8 weeks, while the control group...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 26, 2022
Hao Chen, Chao Liu, Fang Zhou et al.
Creativity is so important for social and technological development that people are eager to find an easy way to enhance it. Previous studies have shown that mindfulness has significant effects on positive affect (PA), working memory capacity, cognitive flexibility and many other aspects, which are the key to promoting creativity. However, there are few studies on the relationship between...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
April 27, 2022
Hao Chen, Chao Liu, Fang Zhou et al.
25 citations
OBJECTIVE: Patient safety is a worldwide problem and a focus of academic research. Human factors and ergonomics (HFE) is an approach to improving healthcare work systems and processes. From the perspective of the cognitive ergonomics of HFE, the aim of this study is to improve the flow level, communication skills, and safety attitudes of surgeons through focused-attention meditation (FAM)...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
March 1, 2022
Chao Liu, Hao Chen, Xinyi Cao et al.
Objective: This study investigated the effects of mindfulness meditation on doctors’ mindfulness, patient safety culture, patient safety competency, and adverse events. Methods: We recruited 91 doctors from a hospital in China and randomized them to mindfulness meditation group (n = 46) and a waiting control group (n = 45). The mindfulness meditation group underwent an 8-week mindfulness...
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Chao Liu, Hao Chen, Fang Zhou et al.
Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) was first practiced by Buddhists and then developed by clinical psychologist. Previous studies on LKM have mainly focused on the impact of real person-guided meditation on depression, anxiety, and other negative psychology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this study explored the effect and mechanism of media-guided LKM on the improvement of social presence,...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
April 12, 2021
Hao Chen, Chao Liu, Xinyi Cao et al.
55 citations
BACKGROUND: In the context of increasing doctor-patient tensions in China, the objective of this study was to explore and examine the effects of loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on doctors' mindfulness, empathy, and communication skills. METHODS: A total of 106 doctors were recruited from a hospital in China, and randomly divided into an LKM training group (n = 53) and waiting control group (n...
Healthcare
June 16, 2020
Chao Liu, Hao Chen, Chia-Yi Liu et al.
61 citations
Background: This study investigated: (1) the effects of the loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on mindfulness, subjective well-being (SWB), and spirituality and (2) the relationships between mindfulness, spirituality, and SWB. Methods: 98 flight attendants from Xiamen Airlines in China were recruited and randomly assigned to the LKM training group (n = 49) or the waiting control group (n = 49)....