Clinics in dermatology
2018
Kerry Montgomery, Andrew R Thompson
While it is widely acknowledged that people living with skin conditions can experience higher levels of psychosocial distress than the general population, access to psychologic support in dermatology is limited. Given the physical and psychosocial consequences of living with skin conditions, interventions used within physical and mental health may be beneficial. Mindfulness, defined as "paying...
Frontiers in Public Health
2018
Anne C Wheeler, Shari Miller, Amanda Wylie et al.
Women with an FMR1 premutation may be at increased genetic risk for stress vulnerability. This increased vulnerability, when combined with stressful parenting that can result from raising children with fragile X syndrome (FXS), may result in negative physical and emotional outcomes. Mindfulness and acceptance have been found to be protective factors for parents of children with similar...
Frontiers in Psychology
2018
César Rodríguez-Ledo, Santos Orejudo, Maria Jesús Cardoso et al.
Emotional intelligence (EI) and mindfulness are two constructs that have been separately studied, and the relation between them still remains unclear. Research in this area has not attempted to go further into how enhancing EI and mindfulness together can achieve better improvements in this ability to attend mindfully. To bridge this knowledge gap, our research goal was to study the...
PLoS One
2018
Deanna M Kaplan, Charles L. Raison, Anne Milek et al.
Mindfulness has seen an extraordinary rise as a scientific construct, yet surprisingly little is known about how it manifests behaviorally in daily life. The present study identifies assumptions regarding how mindfulness relates to behavior and contrasts them against actual behavioral manifestations of trait mindfulness in daily life. Study 1 (N = 427) shows that mindfulness is assumed to...
Mindfulness
2018
Anna F Leyland, Lisa-Marie Emerson, Georgina Rowse
Several sessions of mindfulness practice can exert positive gains for child executive functions (EF); however, the evidence for effects of a mindfulness induction, on EF for adults, is mixed and this effect has not been tested in children. The immediate effect of an age appropriate 3-min mindfulness induction on EF of children aged 4-7 years was tested. Participants (N = 156) were randomly...
Mindfulness
2018
Han Suelmann, André Brouwers, Evelien Snippe
Despite the apparent benefits of being mindful, people are often not very mindful. There seem to be forces that drive people toward as well as away from mindfulness. These forces are conceptualised in terms of competition for scarce attentional resources. To explore these forces and to test this framework, an experience sampling study was performed among people with an explicit intention to be...
Frontiers in Psychology
2018
Lin Sørensen, Berge Osnes, Endre Visted et al.
Background: A state of mindfulness refers to a present-centered attentional awareness without judging. Being mindful seems to increase the ability to be flexible and adaptive in attention focus according to situational contingencies. The way mindfulness affects such attentional control is often measured with three different but interacting attentional networks of alerting (preparedness),...
Frontiers in Psychology
2018
Megan M Walsh, Kara A Arnold
In this study, we investigate the self-regulatory role of mindfulness in buffering the relationship between leaders' emotional exhaustion and self-rated leadership behavior (transformational leadership and abusive supervision). Specifically, we propose that leader mindfulness buffers the relationship between emotional exhaustion and both negative affect and impaired perspective taking, which...
Health psychology and behavioral medicine
2018
Deborah A Ellis, April Carcone, Richard Slatcher et al.
The purpose of the study was to assess the acceptability and feasibility of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a group-delivered intervention, to reduce stress and improve illness management among urban, older adolescents and young adults with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes (T1D). Ten older adolescents and young adults (9 females, 1 male) were recruited to participate in an MBSR...
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
2018
Eric L Garland, Matthew O Howard
Although opioid-treated chronic pain patients evidence blunted responsiveness to natural rewards, focusing on naturally rewarding stimuli can produce analgesia in these patients. A prior randomized controlled trial (RCT) demonstrated that a social work intervention-Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE)-enhanced natural reward processing as indicated by event-related brain potentials...
Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine
January 2018
Carlo Dal Lin, Mariela Marinova, Giorgio Rubino et al.
Mental stress is one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Meditation and music listening are two techniques that are able to counteract it through the activation of specific brain areas, eliciting the so-called Relaxing Response (RR). Epidemiological evidence reveals that the RR practice has a beneficial prognostic impact on patients after myocardial infarction. We aimed to...
PLoS One
2018
Catherine I. Andreu, Diego Cosmelli, Heleen A. Slagter et al.
Research suggests that mindfulness-practices may aid smoking cessation. Yet, the neural mechanisms underlying the effects of mindfulness-practices on smoking are unclear. Response inhibition is a main deficit in addiction, is associated with relapse, and could therefore be a candidate target for mindfulness-based practices. The current study hence investigated the effects of a brief...
Mindfulness
2018
Way K W Lau, Mei-Kei Leung, Yun Kwok Wing et al.
The mechanisms of mindfulness-improved sleep quality are not extensively studied. Recently, attention monitoring/awareness and acceptance in mindfulness have been proposed to be the underlying mechanisms that tackle distress and related disorders. The current study tested if acceptance moderated the relationship of awareness with psychological distress and sleep quality, and verified that...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
2018
Mark P Jensen, Samuel L Battalio, Joy F Chan et al.
This pilot study evaluated the possibility that 2 interventions hypothesized to increase slower brain oscillations (e.g., theta) may enhance the efficacy of hypnosis treatment, given evidence that hypnotic responding is associated with slower brain oscillations. Thirty-two individuals with multiple sclerosis and chronic pain, fatigue, or both, were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 interventions...
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
January 2018
Rebecca Shisler Marshall, Jacqueline Laures-Gore, Kim Love
Stroke is currently the leading cause of long-term disability in adults in the United States. There is a need for accessible, low-cost treatments of stroke-related disabilities such as aphasia. To explore an intervention for aphasia utilizing mindfulness meditation (MM). This preliminary study examines the feasibility of teaching MM to individuals with aphasia. Since physiological measures have...
Journal of Affective Disorders
January 1, 2018
Che‐sheng Chu, Brendon Stubbs, Tien-Yu Chen et al.
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been increasingly used as an adjunctive treatment to pharmacotherapy for a few psychiatric disorders. However, few studies have investigated the efficacy of MBIs in bipolar disorder (BD). We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of MBIs as an adjunctive treatment in BD. Major electronic databases were independently...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2018
Kian F Wong, James Teng, Michael W.L. Chee et al.
Mindfulness based training (MBT) is becoming increasingly popular as a means to improve general wellbeing through developing enhanced control over metacognitive processes. In this preliminary study, we tested a cohort of 36 nurses (mean age = 30.3, SD = 8.52; 2 male) who participated in an 8-week MBT intervention to examine the improvements in sustained attention and its energetic costs that...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2018
Jeffrey M Greeson, Haley Zarrin, Moria J Smoski et al.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week meditation program known to improve anxiety, depression, and psychological well-being. Other health-related effects, such as sleep quality, are less well established, as are the psychological processes associated with therapeutic change. This prospective, observational study (n = 213) aimed to determine whether perseverative cognition,...
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
2018
Shao-Yang Tsai, Satish Jaiswal, Chi-Fu Chang et al.
Prior studies have reported that meditation may improve cognitive functions and those related to attention in particular. Here, the dynamic process of attentional control, which allows subjects to focus attention on their current interests, was investigated. Concentrative meditation aims to cultivate the abilities of continuous focus and redirecting attention from distractions to the object of...
Journal for nurses in professional development
2018
Sheila M Farina, Elizabeth Minerva, Jyl Glunt et al.
Nurses' self-reported lack of self-care and work-related stress prompted professional educators to offer a 15-minute mindfulness experiential learning session during the facility's annual professional development forums. Nurses were taught and practiced mindfulness (e.g., meditation, imagery), designed to empower them to be present in the moment with a sense of clarity and compassion. Outcomes...