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Personal and professional impact of a course on contemplative practices in health and illness.

Nancy C Sharts-Hopko

Holistic Nursing Practice 2007 DOI: 10.1097/00004650-200701000-00002 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Qualitative study Peer reviewed
Population Graduate nursing students
Duration Up to 4 years after the course
Topics Meditation
Keywords Humans Complementary therapies Self care Stress, psychological Nurse's role Nursing education research Curriculum Education, nursing, graduate Students, nursing Adult Middle aged Health promotion United states Female
Key findings Students reported that a graduate nursing course on alternative healing modalities, particularly contemplative practices, remained valuable up to four years later, and the authors offer suggestions for integrating complementary and alternative medicine into mainstream nursing curricula.

Abstract

A nursing graduate course focused on the impact of alternative healing modalities, particularly those that are contemplative in nature, on their professional and personal lives demonstrated that up to 4 years later students found the content to be of value. Suggestions for incorporation of CAM in mainstream nursing courses are shared.

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An exploratory mixed methods study of the acceptability and effectiveness of mindfulness -based cognitive therapy for patients with active depression and anxiety in primary care Primary care patients with recurrent depression or recurrent depression and anxiety 2006 Exploratory mixed methods study n = 13
A qualitative study of mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy for depression Participants in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in a mental-health context 2001 Qualitative study n = 7
Effortless awareness: using real time neurofeedback to investigate correlates of posterior cingulate cortex activity in meditators' self-report Meditators 2013 Qualitative study using grounded theory methodology

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