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Program Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction untuk Menurunkan Kecemasan pada Individu dengan Penyakit Jantung Koroner

Munazilah Munazilah, Nida Ul Hasanat

Gadjah Mada Journal of Professional Psychology June 1, 2018 DOI: 10.22146/gamajpp.45346 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest study Peer reviewed
Population Individuals with coronary heart disease (CHD)
Intervention Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Topics Meditation
Key findings Anxiety decreased significantly after the MBSR program in individuals with coronary heart disease, with a Wilcoxon Sign-Rank result of Z = -2.023 and p = 0.043 (p < 0.05). The authors conclude that MBSR reduces anxiety in this group.

Abstract

Abstract. This study was conducted in individuals with chronic diseases, namely coronary heart disease (CHD). Individuals with CHD experience changes in various aspects of life that create stress in the form of anxiety. The MBSR program can improve the parasympathetic nervous system, reduce the production of adrenaline and epinephrine so that symptoms of stress and anxiety can decrease. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program on reducing anxiety in individuals with CHD. The research method used a quasi-experiment with the design of the one group pretest-posttest design. Data analysis with Sign-Rank Wilcoxon Test non-parametric test. The results showed that there was a significant decrease in anxiety in CHD individuals with a value of Z = -2.023 and p = 0.043 (p <0.05). Based on these results, the MBSR program has been proven to reduce individual anxiety with CHD.

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The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Cancer patients (clinical intervention study) 2003 Mixed methods: scale development, correlational, quasi-experimental, laboratory, experience-sampling, and clinical intervention study
Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. 2008 Controlled laboratory experiment
Mindfulness and mind-wandering: Finding convergence through opposing constructs. 2012 Two studies: correlational study and experimental study
Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence 2009 Experimental study
Mindfulness meditation and substance use in an incarcerated population. Incarcerated population 2006 Quasi-experimental with treatment-as-usual control condition

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