Utilizing Meditation Audio in Warrior Mind Training Treat Traumatized Firefighters
Mengqi Zou
BCP Social Sciences & Humanities October 18, 2022 DOI: 10.54691/bcpssh.v20i.2453 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Pre-post intervention study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Firefighters |
| Intervention | Meditation audio |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | Meditation audio reduced insomnia severity and traumatized symptoms in firefighters. |
Abstract
Meditation is a psychological concept that has become a hot topic recently in the field of neuroscience. Based on many fundamental and crucial experiments or research, people discovered that meditation, however, is a stress buster that helps people to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety disorders spectrums with its scientific mechanisms that are studied. When it comes to firefighters frequently exposed to traumatic fire scenes and at risk of being traumatized, chances are high that meditation will be a pragmatic way of improving their resistance when exposed to the trauma without any side effects caused by its medication. This paper examines the effectiveness of meditation in alleviating PTSD or traumatized symptoms for firefighters with the use of two psychological scales, analyzing and categorizing each result in the statistic. By listening to the meditation audio, the symptoms of insomnia and anxiety have been assuaged, shown by the post-intervention group with p=0.099<0.1, χ2 =4.63 in insomnia-scale measurement, as well as p=0.079<0.1, χ2 = 3.086 in traumatized-scale measurement, embodying the effectiveness of meditation in alleviating traumatized symptoms and insomnia severity as prediction (P was set at 0.1).
Comparable studies
Other non-randomized and open-label trials on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Relation to Quality of Life, Mood, Symptoms of Stress, and Immune Parameters in Breast and Prostate Cancer Outpatients Early-stage breast and prostate cancer patients | 2003 | Pre-post intervention study | n = 59 |
| Exploring self‐compassion and empathy in the context of mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) Community sample | 2010 | Pre-post intervention study | |
| Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Lowers Psychological Distress In Medical Students Second-year medical students | 2003 | Prospective nonrandomized cohort-controlled study | n = 302 |
| Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators. Retreat participants and matched controls | 2011 | Controlled trial with wait-list control group | n = 60 |
| The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Training for Children with ADHD and Mindful Parenting for their Parents Children aged 8-12 with ADHD and their parents | 2011 | Within-group waitlist controlled trial | n = 22 |
Citations in the library
Cites 7
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- Randomized controlled trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on posttraumatic growth of Chinese breast cancer survivors. Psychology, Health & Medicine January 2017
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