Clinical Nurse Well-being Improved Through Transcendental Meditation: A Multimethod Randomized Controlled Trial.
The Journal of nursing administration January 1, 2024 Jennifer I Bonamer, Mary Kutash, Susan R Hartranft et al. 11 citations
Practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM) improved the well-being of clinical nurses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a randomized trial with 104 nurses from three Magnet-designated hospitals, those who received immediate TM instruction showed significant medium to large reductions in posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and burnout, and increased flourishing compared to a delayed-instruction control group. The benefits were immediate and cumulative. TM is easy to practice anywhere and may help organizations and individual nurses support clinicians in challenging times.