This quality improvement project examined the impact of shared decision-making–guided music intervention integrated into esketamine treatment on depressive symptoms and quality of life in 10 adults with treatment-resistant depression at a private psychiatric clinic. Over 4 months, patients collaborated with their providers to select and listen to music during each session. Depressive symptoms...
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment options, including the potential use of psychedelic-assisted therapy, are reviewed. Traditional PTSD treatment remains ineffective for many, and includes, trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization and remodeling, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Evidence has shown that with further supportive research,...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic placed a spotlight on health care workers as the world struggled with mental health crises. As the number of COVID-19 cases rose exponentially, this also paralleled health care workers' perceived stress burden and increased risk for mental health trauma. This research project assessed the impact of a mobile mindful meditation application on health care workers'...
Mind-body therapies are among the most widely recommended and used form of complementary and alternative medicine. Nursing has long championed these interventions, citing the healing potential of the mind on physiological systems. Professional beliefs about the inherent holism of the human being are now supported by advances in science; there is basic bench research that now suggests an...