This study explores the role of self-transcendence values in reducing anxiety among Chinese undergraduates, with a particular focus on how self-enhancement values and self-construal styles moderate this relationship. A total of 567 undergraduate students were assessed using the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ-21), the Trait Anxiety Inventory (T-AI), and the Self-Construal Scale (SCS)....
In this article we aimed synthesize all available evidence regarding the effects of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques combined with mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on mental health indicators. We performed a systematic review of randomized controlled trials evaluating NIBS/MBIs combinations in clinical populations and a random effects pairwise meta-analysis of studies...
Journal of Burn Care & ResearchNovember 14, 2024Ayça Tuba Dumanlı Özcan, Betül Akaycan, Serdar Süleyman Can et al.4 citations
Adequate and effective pain management and prevention of depression are essential in patients with burns. This study aims to explore the effects of ketamine sedation in patients with burns in terms of mood disorders, depression, anxiety, and suicidality during postoperative follow-up in the intensive care unit. This study targeted subjects aged 18-65 years, in the ASA I-II class, with basic...
Investigating the effect of Tibetan Singing Bowls (TSB) meditation on physiological features including heart rate is limited. This study focused on applying multiscale modified diffusion entropy analysis (MSMDEA) on heart-rate fluctuations exhibiting 1/f noise. MSMDEA identifies the contribution of crucial events within a 1/f-noise time series that differs from the well-known Fractional...
This study aimed to 1) examine how psychopharmacotherapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) influence absenteeism and job performance among individuals with anxiety disorders and 2) compare the effectiveness of these treatments in improving work performance. Adults (N = 67) with a primary anxiety disorder were recruited to participate in the study. Participants were randomized to...
Ketamine exerts rapid antidepressant effects by enhancing neuroplasticity, particularly in the amygdala and hippocampus-regions involved in fear processing and learning. While the role of ketamine's dissociative effects in its antidepressant response is debated, anxiety experienced during infusion has been negatively correlated with treatment outcomes. In this single-blind, placebo-controlled...
Objectives With the rapid growth of China’s sprint program’s international competitiveness, the psychological problems of sprinters have become a common concern in sports training theory and practice. Hence, the study examined the impact of a 7-week Mindfulness training program on competition state anxiety in Chinese sprinters. Methods Twenty-four sprinters (M age = 22.46 ± 1.351) were selected...
This study explores the effectiveness of internet-based mindfulness meditation interventions in mitigating depression and anxiety symptoms among college students. A total of 72 participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: offline mindfulness intervention, online mindfulness intervention, and a control group. The intervention lasted for eight weeks, during which participants'...
There is a large and rapidly growing body of literature investigating the therapeutic effects of classic psychedelics in affective and anxiety disorders, but very few studies have examined the inverse of this, that is, the potential for psychedelics to inflict anxiety and affective symptoms. A systematic literature search was performed and 39 papers were included in the final review to...
This study aims to determine the effect of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in reducing anxiety in unemployed pilot school graduates. The research method used in this study is to use an experimental research design. The research design that will be used in this study is a one-group pretest-posttest design. The population in this study were 9 graduates of the 2019 class of BIFA pilot...