British Journal of Mental Health Nursing
November 2, 2019
Jan Macfarlane, Joey Weber
15 citations
This is the fourth article in a series of articles that explores the meaning of positive psychology and the importance of applying the latest related research findings for the wellbeing of the mental health workforce. It will focus on mindfulness as a positive psychology intervention from its development to present day use and how it is relevant to mental health nursing. Finally, it will...
Occupational Medicine
November 2, 2019
M Safarzadeh, MM Jahangiri
Background: Train driver is a job with a high level of occupational stress. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness mindfulness-based stress reduction on occupational stress and general health among train drivers. Method: This study was a quasi-experimental pretest - posttest with control group. Utilization of voluntary sampling method, 30 people were selected among the train...
2019 IEEE 39th Central America and Panama Convention
November 1, 2019
Juan José Sánchez Vásquez, E. Estelles
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a low-cost technique for registering rhythmic brain oscillations. Electroencephalographic studies of meditative states have been conducted for nearly 50 years, but no clear consensus has emerged about the neurophysiological changes underlying the practice of meditation. EEG 8-channel registration was performed on expert and novice meditators. A spectral analysis...
2019 IEEE R10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)(47129)
November 1, 2019
P. D. Purnamasari, Alya Fernandya
The desire to end someone's life commonly triggered by depression or mental health. One way to detect whether someone is depressed is by checking whether the person is constantly stressed for a long time. Electroencephalograph (EEG) is one of physiological signal that can be used for monitoring someone's mental condition, such as stress. The proposed and developed Stress Detection and...
The Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology
November 1, 2019
Nicole Geschwind, Saara Martinmäki, Eric L Garland
Positive emotions are vital to psychological well-being and enhance resilience against psychopathology. One of the psychiatric disorders most characterized by a lack of positive emotions is major depressive disorder. Despite the resilience-enhancing features of positive emotions and high rates of relapse for major depressive disorder, current recommended treatment forms do not pay much explicit...
Mindfulness
November 2019
Emily A Kragel, Maggie M Sweitzer, James M. Davis
Many individuals who smoke relapse due to weight gain. Mindfulness training has been shown to help smokers quit smoking, and, in other populations, has been used to help people lose weight. This study was designed to assess the effect of one week of mindfulness practice on food cravings in smokers during 12-hour smoking abstinence. We assessed daily smokers with a history of smoking lapse after...
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
November 1, 2019
Hedy Kober, Jason Buhle, Jochen Weber et al.
Mindfulness training ameliorates clinical and self-report measures of depression and chronic pain, but its use as an emotion regulation strategy-in individuals who do not meditate-remains understudied. As such, whether it (i) down-regulates early affective brain processes or (ii) depends on cognitive control systems remains unclear. We exposed meditation-naïve participants to two kinds of...
Pain Medicine
November 1, 2019
Melissa A Day, L Charles Ward, Dawn M Ehde et al.
AbstractObjectiveThis pilot trial compared the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability, and effects of group-delivered mindfulness meditation (MM), cognitive therapy (CT), and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for chronic low back pain (CLBP).SettingUniversity of Queensland Psychology Clinic.SubjectsParticipants were N = 69 (intent-to-treat [ITT] sample) adults with CLBP.DesignA...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
November 1, 2019
Helané Wahbeh, Nina Fry
Abstract Preliminary positive evidence supports the use of iRest (Integrative Restoration) in older adults with depression symptoms. No long-term follow-up measures have been reported on whether the preliminary effects continue beyond initial iRest trainings. The growing population of older adults with depression symptoms is a serious public health issue, and effective interventions to support...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
November 1, 2019
Helané Wahbeh, Melissa Nelson
Abstract Older adults, a rapidly growing population in the United States, have fewer physiological reserves and are more likely to be affected by stress, making them especially susceptible to depression symptoms. Meditation offers promising potential as an effective treatment; however, few studies have evaluated meditation interventions for this demographic. The objectives of this pilot study...
Psychosocial Intervention
November 1, 2019
Noemí Sansó, Laura Galiana, B. González et al.
espanolEl objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar la eficacia diferencial de dos intervenciones para mejorar la calidad de vida de profesionales de atencion primaria de Mallorca: un programa de reduccion del estres basado en mindfulness (MBSRt) y un entrenamiento en cultivo de la compasion (CCT). Participaron 50 profesionales, el 81% de los cuales eran mujeres. Se evaluo mindfulness, empatia,...
International Conference on Systems and Informatics
November 1, 2019
Pei-Chen Lo, Yizhou Wu
SOM (self-organizing map) is modified to encode the cross-bifrequency map that evaluates the cardiorespiratory interactions at Zen-meditation and resting states. The effectiveness of meditation on stress manipulation has aroused the attention of researchers. Cardiovascular and respiratory systems are very important in manipulating both mental and physical health in the stressful environment....
Psycho-Oncology
November 1, 2019
E. Nissen, M. O'Connor, Viktor Kaldo et al.
Internet‐delivered interventions may alleviate distress in cancer survivors with limited access to psychological face‐to‐face treatment. In collaboration with a group of cancer survivors, we developed and tested the efficacy of a therapist‐assisted internet‐delivered mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy (iMBCT) program for anxiety and depression in cancer survivors.
eNeuro
November 1, 2019
Clemens C C Bauer, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, J L Díaz et al.
While brain default mode network (DMN) activation in human subjects has been associated with mind wandering, meditation practice has been found to suppress it and to increase psychological well-being. In addition to DMN activity reduction, experienced meditators (EMs) during meditation practice show an increased connectivity between the DMN and the central executive network (CEN). However, the...
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine
October 31, 2019
Pawan Sharma, A. Mahapatra, Rishab Gupta
Background: Meditation is associated with health benefits; however, there are reports that it may trigger or exacerbate psychotic states. In this review, we aim to collate case reports of psychotic disorders occurring in association with meditative practice and to discuss the relationship between psychosis and meditation. Methodology: We performed case-based analysis of all the existing studies...
Journal of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences
October 30, 2019
M. M. Azadi, Gholamreza Manshaee, M. Golparvar
Background and aims: The present study aimed to compare mobile social network-based mindfulness training, along with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and mindfulness therapy on self-management and glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) level in patients with type 2 diabetes. Materials and Methods: The research employed a pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design with a three-month...
Journal of Affective Disorders
October 30, 2019
G. Lönnberg, W. Jonas, E. Unternaehrer et al.
OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of a Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Program (MBCP) in reducing pregnant women's perceived stress and preventing perinatal depression compared to an active control condition. METHOD First time pregnant women (n = 197) at risk of perinatal depression were randomized to MBCP or an active control treatment, which consisted of a...
Prosiding Seminar Ilmiah Nasional Teknologi, Sains, dan Sosial Humaniora
October 27, 2019
Tio Rosalina
ABSTRAKPerkembangan industri 4.0 telah mendorong perubahan pembagian kerja antara manusia dan mesin. Pekerjaan manusia, pada satu sisi, telah sangat terbantukan dengan perangkat pintar dan sistem informatika (digital) yang semakin canggih. Di sisi lain peran perangkat pintar dan sistem digitalisasi telah memenjarakan waktu dan pikiran kita dengan cara membentuk kita sebagai individu yang...
Trials
October 24, 2019
S. B. Peckham, Emily Ionson, Marouane Nassim et al.
BackgroundRecent estimates suggest an 11% prevalence of current late-life depression (LLD) and a lifetime prevalence of 16–20%. LLD leads to cognitive disturbance as well as a nearly two to three times increased risk of dementia. We conducted a recent randomized controlled trial (RCT) which demonstrated that Sahaj Samadhi meditation (SSM), an easy-to-implement, meditation-based augmentation...
Personality Neuroscience
October 24, 2019
Satish Jaiswal, Neil G Muggleton, Chi-Hung Juan et al.
Mindfulness and anxiety are often linked as inversely related traits and there have been several theoretical and mediational models proposed suggesting such a relationship between these two traits. The current review report offers an account of self-report measures, behavioral, electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and biological studies, which provide converging evidence for an inverse...