The American journal of family therapy
June 1, 2021
N. Rahmani, S. Teymuri, M. Bayazi et al.
Abstract This study aimed to investigate the effect of the family-friendly program (FFP) on reducing parental anxiety sensitivity (PAS) and also Separation Anxiety disorders (SAD) in children and adolescents. Subjects in both groups responded to the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorder-71 (SCARED-71) (to diagnose separation) and the anxiety sensitivity questionnaire for parents, before...
Journal of Education and Health Promotion
May 31, 2021
Hajar Zandi, Ali Amirinejhad, Akbar Azizifar et al.
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness as an intervention approach in mental health has been increasingly used to promote health in young people. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness training on coping with stress, test anxiety, and happiness to promote health in female high school students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The design of this study was quasi-experimental with...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
May 25, 2021
Laura Lozano Montes, Vandana Balakrishnan, S. Gopalakrishnan
Objective: We aimed to study the short-term effects of Integrated Amrita Meditation (IAM) technique in anxiety and depression states and to have a better understanding on the underlying physiological changes related to short-term and long-term IAM practice. Design: Short-term IAM practitioners (ST-IAM) and long-term IAM practitioners (LT-IAM) were compared to control groups of the same age and...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
May 12, 2021
Liguo He, Wei Han, Zhan Shi
This study examines the impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) vs. wait list (WL) on the self-reference effect involving negative adjectives in individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD). Eighty-five participants with SAD were randomly assigned to 12 weeks of MBSR or WL and completed an incidental SRE task that assessed treatment-related negative self-representations....
PsyArXiv
May 11, 2021
Elizaveta Solomonova, Claudia Picard-Deland, Iris L Rapoport et al.
preprint
Background: An upsurge in dream and nightmare frequency has been noted since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and research shows increases in levels of stress, depression and anxiety during this time. Growing evidence suggests that dream content has a bi-directional relationship with psychopathology, and that dreams react to new, personally significant and emotional experiences. The first...
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
May 10, 2021
Zonghua Wang, Xiaoxiao Xu, Shuang Liu et al.
Objective Mindfulness-based interventions have been widely demonstrated to be effective in reducing stress, alleviating mood disorders, and improving quality of life; however, the underlying mechanisms remained to be fully understood. Along with the advanced research in the microbiota-gut-brain axis, this study aimed to explore the impact of gut microbiota on the effectiveness and...
journal of ilam university of medical sciences
May 1, 2021
Golestan Nazari, Hasan Amiri, Karim Afshariniea et al.
Introduction: This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (MBCT) and acceptance-commitment therapy (ACT) on the fear of negative evaluation and anxiety in couples visiting counseling centers in Ilam. Materials & Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted based on a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical...
Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery
April 29, 2021
Prashanthi Gurram, V. Narayanan, S. Chandran et al.
PURPOSE Oral-maxillofacial surgical procedures like Impacted third molar surgery (ITMS) may lead to increased perioperative anxiety and pain perception in patients. Psychological interventions like meditation have been shown to decrease acute anxiety levels in individuals. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of heartfulness (HFN) meditation during ITMS. We hypothesized that...
Psychiatry Research
April 20, 2021
Xiaoyu Liu, Peng Yi, Lijun Ma et al.
Various psychiatric disorders are treated with mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), although the efficacy of MBIs in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) is unclear. In this meta-analysis, we investigated the efficacy of MBIs on SAD symptoms. Systematic searches were performed in various databases, and 11 eligible randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and 5 single-arm trials were...
International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
April 20, 2021
Emilee E. Burgess, Steven Selchen, Benjamin D. Diplock et al.
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have emerged as clinically effective interventions for anxiety and depression although there are significant barriers to their access in the general population. The present study examined the effectiveness of a 5-week abbreviated mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) intervention for a physician-referred, treatment-seeking, community sample (N = 54)...