Background Sleep problems are common among university students due to academic stress, lifestyle factors, and psychological distress and may adversely affect physical and mental health, academic performance, and social functioning. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have increasingly been used as a non-pharmacological approach to improve sleep health; however, previous findings remain...
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...
Introduction Indigenous cultures across Turtle Island have long promoted wellness through language, ceremony, storytelling, movement, community connection, and relationships with the natural world. These cultural practices may serve as important pathways for healing and health promotion. At the same time, Indigenous communities experience disproportionate rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD),...
Background Indigenous peoples experience substantial mental health and substance use disparities while remaining underserved by conventional healthcare systems. Despite growing evidence for psychedelic-assisted therapies, Indigenous knowledge systems and Indigenous-led models of psychedelic care remain underrepresented. This paper describes the establishment and implementation of the Yaqui...
The modern United States faces significant public health challenges, including a mental health crisis and healthcare systems with numerous shortcomings. At the same time, emerging research on psychedelic substances demonstrates their robust applications for health and well-being, as well as their nuanced risks. While regulators explore how psychedelics can be incorporated into existing...
Background: The group therapy model has been recently favored as a means of conducting psychedelic assisted therapies for mental health disorders. However, there is a paucity of literature showing strengths or drawbacks of this approach and comparisons of safety and efficacy to individual therapy. This systematic review aims to address this gap in literature. Methods: We included original...
Psychedelic and other psychoactive substance use is increasing in non-clinical environments, including music festivals, concerts, and other large-scale gatherings. As psychedelic use expands beyond clinical settings, policymakers, healthcare systems, event operators, and researchers require evidence-informed frameworks for understanding and responding to psychoactive-related distress in...
Introduction Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses are particularly at a high risk of professional grief. Mindful self-care practices were confirmed to improve nurses' mental health status. However, the current studies focusing on mindful self-care among ICU nurses are limited, and the relationship between mindful self-care and professional grief has not been confirmed. This study aims to examine...
Frontiers in Public HealthSeptember 22, 2026Raúl Guzmán, Yuri Félix Chávez-Luque, Guillermo Sebastián Medina et al.
Worker safety is fundamental in any organization, so we propose a mindfulness-based program enhanced by virtual reality (VR) to improve attitudes toward preventing occupational risks and accidents and reduce work-related stress in an industrial company. The program was implemented as a complement to Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) of nine 30-min sessions delivered in person and continuously by two...
As psychedelic interventions move from controlled clinical trials into broader implementation, critical dimensions of lived experience among patients, trial participants, families, and caregivers remain systematically undermeasured in research, service design, and oversight. The resulting gap between protocol-defined outcomes and real-world experiences over time creates blind spots in current...
Background: Mindful eating serves as a critical behavioral strategy for promoting healthy dietary practices and enhancing mental wellbeing. However, there is currently a notable absence of a rigorously validated mindful eating assessment tool that is applicable to the general population in China. This study aims to translate the Mindful Eating Scale (Mind-Eat Scale) into Chinese and to validate...
Use of psychedelic substances is increasing across unregulated, state-regulated, research, ceremonial/religious, and medical settings in the United States. Concurrently, a growing body of clinical research signals the potential for therapeutic applications for specific psychedelics in the treatment of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, and other health...
Background: Global displacement is a major public mental health concern shaped by conflict, protracted geopolitical instability, disrupted social worlds, and structural inequities. Yoga is increasingly discussed within health promotion as a potentially accessible and adaptable practice. However, much of the existing literature has prioritized symptom-based outcomes and has rarely been situated...
Background Psilocybin-assisted therapy is continuing to show significant positive effects for palliative cancer patients, both in reducing symptoms and improving one’s sense of hope and meaning. Most research has focused on individual therapy models, limiting access and overlooking potential community-based benefits. Methods This qualitative study describes the results of patients experiencing...
Introduction: Mindfulness training benefits psychological well‑being, but its mechanisms in culturally specific contexts (e.g., Chinese university students facing academic pressure and family expectations) remain poorly understood. Methods: Cross‑sectional stratified random sampling of 432 undergraduates from four Chinese universities. Standardized scales measured mindfulness, psychological...
Informed by a community engagement process, we have developed a pragmatic, open-label, hybrid feasibility-implementation study of Group Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy (GPAT) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As psychedelic-assisted therapies begin to enter the broader mental health arena, engaging communities in the design of research and care models is essential to ensuring that those...
In recent years, the development of neurotechnologies has stimulated extensive ethical and legal debates around the concepts of neurorights, cognitive liberty, and mental privacy (Ienca & Andorno, 2017). Yet, the current debate has been shaped largely by a technocratic logic originating in Global North contexts, where neurotechnological innovation is often framed in terms of cognitive...
Introduction: Psilocybin therapy has demonstrated efficacy for cancer-related anxiety and depression, but resource-intensive individual treatment models raise important questions for psychedelic public health about equitable access and scalability. In our prior Phase 1/2 study of group retreat psilocybin therapy for patients with metastatic cancer, we observed partial responders who did not...
Background Methamphetamine (MA) addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder that impairs physical health, induces mental distress (e.g., anxiety), and triggers abnormal inflammatory and neurotransmitter responses, all contributing to high relapse rates. Mindfulness and yoga interventions may alleviate psychological distress and improve physical well-being in substance users; however, few studies...
Background: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are psychological skills training approaches that are well recognized for enhancing psychological factors that influence sports performance. However, some factors, such as time commitment, cost, and accessibility required for traditional MBIs, can be a barrier to regular practice. As a result, brief MBIs with a duration of ≤ 30 min have gained...
Psilocybin-assisted therapy (PAT) is an emerging intervention that combines the administration of psilocybin with structured psychological support to address profound psychological, emotional, and existential distress. Central to this model is the recognition that many forms of suffering-particularly at end of life-are relational in nature and require relational forms of healing. It is our...
In an era of ubiquitous digital communication, online social anxiety has become an increasingly salient issue in the context of digital wellbeing. While procrastination is a known risk factor for psychological distress, the cognitive pathways linking it to online anxiety-and the protective factors that might mitigate these associations-remain poorly understood. Drawing on Conservation of...
Death anxiety is prevalent across many modern cultures and is associated with significant psychological, social and economic costs, including avoidance of advance care planning and the overuse of life-prolonging medical interventions at the end of life. From a yogic perspective, this pervasive clinging to life reflects abhinivesha, one of the five kleshas (mental afflictions) described as a...
The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of regular ānāpāna practice, a beginning step of vipassanā meditation, in the framework of the MITRA program, over one academic year, on attention and mental well-being among secondary school students. Two classes of 8th-grade students from a single school were treated either as experimental group (EG: n = 44) or control group (CG: n = 45),...