Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2024
Yuanqing Pan, Fusen Li, Haiqian Liang et al.
32 citations
Psychological distress is a progressive health problem that has been linked to decreased quality of life among university students. This meta-analysis reviews existing randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that have examined the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the relief of psychosomatic stress-related outcomes and quality of life among university students. The PubMed,...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
October 7, 2022
Komal Shah, Chiranjivi Adhikari, Shubham Sharma et al.
Introduction: COVID-19, a multisystem disease, has implications for various immunity and infection biomarkers. Yoga (Y), meditation (M), and pranayama (P), and their combinations have shown positive changes on those biomarkers among other than COVID-19 patients and healthy people. So, we aimed to document the evidence of possible implication in a systematic way. Materials and methods: We...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
March 24, 2022
Hojung Kang, Seung Chan An, Byeongkwan Kim et al.
Meditation and acupressure-like stimulations have been shown to relieve pain. The aim of this study was to determine whether a short bout of mind-body intervention combined with meditation and acupressure-like stimulation was able to alleviate shoulder pain and improve its function in a short time window. Sixty-five adults with shoulder pain were recruited and randomly classified into two...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
January 4, 2022
P Upadhyay, T F H Chang, S Hariri et al.
In recent years, mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are rapidly growing in the workplace. Several meta-analyses conclude that overall MBIs have a moderate effect of alleviating deficit-based experiences, such as burnout and stress, but a small to no effect of promoting asset-based experiences, such as positive affect and well-being. While workplace MBIs vary greatly in their content,...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2022
Yuri Kim, Jaewon Khil, NaNa Keum
College students are vulnerable to diverse mental health disorders. We aimed to investigate whether a meditation class would be an effective means to address students' mental health challenges. Among the college students who registered for the meditation course, 256 participants were enrolled. The meditation course was a 15-week program incorporating mindfulness meditation and Ganhwa Seon (a...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2021
Ying Yao, Likun Ge, Qian Yu et al.
Deep involvement in the negative mood over long periods of time likely results in emotional disturbances/disorders and poor mental health. Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) is regarded as a typical mind-body practice combining aerobic exercise and meditation to prevent and treat negative mood. Although there are an increasing number of TCC studies examining anxiety, depression, and mental stress, the...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
August 30, 2018
Effects of Mantra Meditation versus Music Listening on Knee Pain, Function, and Related Outcomes in Older Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis: An Exploratory Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT).
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2018
Nadia Gulluni, Tania Simona Re, Idalba Loiacono et al.
61 citations
We examined the effects of essential oil from legal (THC <0.2% w/v) hemp variety on the nervous system in 5 healthy volunteers. GC/EIMS and GC/FID analysis of the EO showed that the main components were myrcene and β‐caryophyllene. The experiment consisted of measuring autonomic nervous system (ANS) parameters; evaluations of the mood state; and electroencephalography (EEG) recording before...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2018
Jeffrey M Greeson, Haley Zarrin, Moria J Smoski et al.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week meditation program known to improve anxiety, depression, and psychological well-being. Other health-related effects, such as sleep quality, are less well established, as are the psychological processes associated with therapeutic change. This prospective, observational study (n = 213) aimed to determine whether perseverative cognition,...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2017
Brett Froeliger, Amanda R. Mathew, Patrick A. McConnell et al.
88 citations
The primary goal of this pilot feasibility study was to examine the effects of Mindfulness‐Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE), a behavioral treatment grounded in dual‐process models derived from cognitive science, on frontostriatal reward processes among cigarette smokers. Healthy adult (N = 13; mean (SD) age 49 ± 12.2) smokers provided informed consent to participate in a 10‐week study...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2017
Aleksandra Zgierska, Joshua Shapiro, Cindy A. Burzinski et al.
Treatment fidelity is essential to methodological rigor of clinical trials evaluating behavioral interventions such as Mindfulness Meditation (MM). However, procedures for monitoring and maintenance of treatment fidelity are inconsistently applied, limiting the strength of such research. To describe the implementation and findings related to fidelity monitoring of the Mindfulness-Based Relapse...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
February 11, 2016
T. Rich, Robert Pfister, J. Alton et al.
Introduction. Athletes who develop an immunosuppressed state because of intensive training get upper respiratory infections (URIs) and may respond to meditation. Reflective exercise (RE), a westernized form of Qigong, combines meditation, breathing, and targeted mental attention to an internal pulsatile sensation, previously shown to protect varsity swimmers from URIs during the height of...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
November 10, 2015
Ho-Hoi Ching, Malcolm Koo, Tsung-Huang Tsai et al.
Mindfulness training has recently gained much research interest because of its putative benefits for both mental and physical health. However, little is available in its effects on Asian students. Therefore, a quasi-experimental pre/posttest design was used to assess the effects of a one-semester mindfulness meditation course in 152 first-year Taiwanese university students and compared with 130...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2015
Stefan G Hofmann, Nicola Petrocchi, James Steinberg et al.
70 citations
Conventional treatments for mood disorders primarily focus on reducing negative affect, but little on enhancing positive affect. Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is a traditional meditation practice directly oriented toward enhancing unconditional and positive emotional states of kindness towards oneself and others. We report here two independent and uncontrolled studies carried out at...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2015
Toni Hesse, Laura Graham Holmes, Vicki Kennedy-Overfelt et al.
51 citations
Recurrent headaches cause significant burden for adolescents and their families. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been shown to reduce stress and alter the experience of pain, reduce pain burden, and improve quality of life. Research indicates that MBIs can benefit adults with chronic pain conditions including headaches. A pilot nonrandomized clinical trial was conducted with 20...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2015
Nerissa S P Ho, Delin Sun, Kin-Hung Ting et al.
This study explored the relationship of mindfulness trait with the early and late stages of affective processing, by examining the two corresponding ERP components, P2 and LPP, collected from twenty-two male Chinese participants with a wide range of meditation experiences. Multiple regression analyses was performed on the mindfulness scores, as measured by CAMS-R, with the subjective affective...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2014
Natalie T Y Leung, Mandy M Lo, Tatia M C Lee
Affective dysregulation is at the root of many psychopathologies, including stress induced disorders, anxiety disorders, and depression. The root of these disorders appears to be an attenuated, top-down cognitive control from the prefrontal cortices over the maladaptive subcortical emotional processing. A form of mental training, long-term meditation practice can trigger meditation-specific...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
December 28, 2013
Rainer W. Bussmann
79 citations
Northern Peru represents the center of the Andean "health axis," with roots going back to traditional practices of Cupisnique culture (1000 BC). For more than a decade of research, semistructured interviews were conducted with healers, collectors, and sellers of medicinal plants. In addition, bioassays were carried out to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of plants found. Most of the 510...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
December 17, 2013
Pei-Chen Lo, Chih-Hao Chang
This paper reports the results of our investigation of the effects of Chan meditation on brain electrophysiological behaviors from the viewpoint of spatially nonlinear interdependence among regional neural networks. Particular emphasis is laid on the alpha-dominated EEG (electroencephalograph). Continuous-time wavelet transform was adopted to detect the epochs containing substantial alpha...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
September 23, 2013
Elizabeth A Hoge, Britta K. Hölzel, Luana Marques et al.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a condition characterized by worry and physiological arousal symptoms that causes significant disabilities in patients' lives. In order to improve psychotherapeutic interventions, a careful characterization of the deficiencies of this population as well as factors that ameliorate disability is crucial. Variables that have not traditionally been the focus of...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2013
M. A. D. Danucalov, Elisa H. Kozasa, K. T. Ribas et al.
80 citations
Familial caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease exhibit reduced quality of life and increased stress levels. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of an 8-week yoga and compassion meditation program on the perceived stress, anxiety, depression, and salivary cortisol levels in familial caregivers. A total of 46 volunteers were randomly assigned to participate in a...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
January 16, 2012
Geoffrey W Melville, Dennis Chang, Ben Colagiuri et al.
This study compared acute (15 min) yoga posture and guided meditation practice, performed seated in a typical office workspace, on physiological and psychological markers of stress. Twenty participants (39.6 ± 9.5 yr) completed three conditions: yoga, meditation, and control (i.e., usual work) separated by ≥24 hrs. Yoga and meditation significantly reduced perceived stress versus control, and...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2012
Ramesh Manocha, Deborah Ann Black, Leigh Ann Wilson
34 citations
Background. There is very little data describing the long-term health impacts of meditation. Aim. To compare the quality of life and functional health of long-term meditators to that of the normative population in Australia. Method. Using the SF-36 questionnaire and a Meditation Lifestyle Survey, we sampled 343 long-term Australian Sahaja Yoga meditation practitioners and compared their scores...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2012
Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, James Carmody, Gloria Y Yeh et al.
12 citations
Background. Meditation practices are associated with a reduction in adrenergic activity that may benefit patients with severe cardiac arrhythmias. This paper describes the design and methods of a pilot study testing the feasibility of a phone-delivered mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) for treatment of anxiety in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). Design and...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2012
Brett Froeliger, Eric L Garland, F Joseph McClernon
Hatha yoga techniques, including physical postures (asanas), breathing exercises (pranayama), and meditation, involve the practice of mindfulness. In turn, yoga meditation practices may induce the state of mindfulness, which, when evoked recurrently through repeated practice, may accrue into trait or dispositional mindfulness. Putatively, these changes may be mediated by experience-dependent...