Medical Sciences
May 21, 2021
Rishi Shukla, Manisha Gupta, Neha Agarwal et al.
Mindfulness Meditation (MM) is known to improve glycemic control and enhance the quality of life (QoL) in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients. Unfortunately, the role of meditation in type 1 diabetes (T1D) has not been studied extensively. Therefore, we conducted this study to determine the effect of MM on the glycemic control and QoL in people living with T1D. Thirty-two adults living with T1D were...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
May 21, 2021
A. Accoto, Salvatore G Chiarella, Antonino Raffone et al.
The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown have been widely recognized as traumatic events that pose threats to psychological well-being. Recent studies reported that during such traumatic events, women tend to be at greater risk than men for developing symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression. Several studies reported that a mindfulness-based stress reduction...
Journal of Clinical Oncology
May 20, 2021
Anne Hudson Blaes, Patricia Jewett, Prabhjot Nijjar et al.
e24058 Background: Breast cancer survivors on aromatase inhibitors (AIs) can develop endothelial dysfunction, a measure of increased CV risk. Stress modifying techniques such as MBSR may improve CV function and quality of life (QOL). We present data of a pilot study assessing the impact of MBSR on endothelial dysfunction and psychosocial outcomes. Methods: 31 women with locally advanced breast...
Applied Cognitive Psychology
May 20, 2021
Ana Junça-Silva, Catarina Pombeira, António Caetano
65 citations
Summary This study aims to expand the knowledge on the affective events theory by: (1) testing the mediating role of affect in the relationship between micro‐daily events and well‐being, (2) and analyzing the moderating role of mindfulness in this mediated relationship. To achieve these goals, we collected data with 393 working adults. The results showed that: (1) affect mediates the...
Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
May 19, 2021
Taghrid Asfar, Tulay Koru‐Sengul, Debra W. Annane et al.
5 citations
Approximately 45% of young cancer survivors (18-40 years) are cigarette smokers. Continued smoking after cancer diagnosis leads to lower survival rates. A major logistical problem with smoking cessation efforts in this group is their geographic dispersion which makes them hard to reach. In addition, depression is a major predictor of smoking relapse and its rates are roughly twice as high in...
Psychoneuroendocrinology
May 19, 2021
J. Gordon, M. Halleran, Shadi Beshai et al.
BACKGROUND The menopause transition is associated with an increased risk of depressive symptoms. The current study aimed to test whether Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, an 8-week group intervention involving meditation and yoga, might reduce the risk of depressive symptoms among perimenopausal women. A secondary aim was to examine baseline characteristics, including sensitivity to estradiol...
MIER Journal of Educational Studies Trends & Practices
May 19, 2021
Shaveta Sharma Sharma
The present study aims to investigate depression among adolescents with spiritual intelligence and mindfulness. The study was conducted on 500 adolescents studying in government and private schools/colleges in Karnataka. The sample of 500 adolescents was drawn from five randomly selected districts in Karnataka. The Spiritual Intelligence Scale (SIS-MK) by Misra (2014) Misra (2014), the...
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
May 18, 2021
Johannes Alfons Karl, Finley Ngarangi Johnson, Luisa Bucci et al.
We provide a critical review of mindfulness research, focusing on three core areas and questions. First, a meta-review and bibliometric analysis on mindfulness research trends identified a large number of meta-analyses published in the last 20 years, which tend to show positive effects on average, despite continuing questions on research quality, unclear pathways and uncertainty about the...
Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi
May 18, 2021
Luna Sun, Jingwen Gu, Lijun Huang et al.
Purpose Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a significant global mental health concern, especially in the military. This study aims to estimate the efficacy of mindfulness meditation in the treatment of military-related PTSD, by synthesizing evidences from randomized controlled trials. Methods Five electronic databases (Pubmed, EBSCO Medline, Embase, PsychINFO and Cochrane Library) were...
Clinical Psychological Science
May 18, 2021
Willoughby B. Britton, Jared R. Lindahl, David J. C. Cooper et al.
Research on the adverse effects of mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) has been sparse and hindered by methodological imprecision. The 44-item Meditation Experiences Interview (MedEx-I) was used by an independent assessor to measure meditation-related side effects (MRSEs) following three variants of an 8-week program of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (n = 96). Each item was queried for...
Assessment
May 18, 2021
Simon B. Goldberg, Scott A. Baldwin, Kevin M. Riordan et al.
73 citations
The working alliance may be relevant in unguided smartphone-based interventions, but no validated measure exists. We evaluated the psychometric properties of the six-item Digital Working Alliance Inventory (DWAI) using a cross-sectional survey of meditation app users ( n = 290) and the intervention arm of a randomized trial testing a smartphone-based meditation app ( n = 314). Exploratory...
Infectious diseases of poverty
May 17, 2021
Ming-Yu Si, Wei-Jun Xiao, Chen Pan et al.
Background: COVID-19 can lead to increased psychological symptoms such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety among patients with COVID-19. Based on the previous mindfulness-based interventions proved to be effective, this protocol reports a design of a randomized controlled trial aiming to explore the efficacy and possible mechanism of a mindful living with challenge...
Mindfulness
May 17, 2021
M. González-García, Jorge Crespo Álvarez, E. Pérez et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a global mental health challenge that has disrupted the lives of millions of people, with a considerable effect on university students. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of a brief online Mindfulness and Compassion-based Intervention to promote mental health among first year university students during COVID-19 home confinement. Participants...
Journal of Holistic Nursing
May 17, 2021
Alyssa Green, Elizabeth Kinchen
Background: Occupational burnout related to stress in the workplace is experienced by nurses who are regularly confronted with trauma, suffering, and high workloads. Burnout can negatively impact patient care and have detrimental effects on nurses’ physical and mental health. Mindfulness-based stress reduction programs have been researched as a potential holistic intervention for reducing...
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....
International Journal of Yoga
May 10, 2021
Usha Panjwani, Sharmila Dudani, Meetu Wadhwa
Stress is one of the major problems globally, associated with poor sleep quality and cognitive dysfunction. Modern society is plagued by sleep disturbances, either due to professional demands or lifestyle or both the aspects, often leading to reduced alertness and compromised mental function, besides the well documented ill effects of disturbed sleep on physiological functions. This pertinent...
Journal of Educational and Social Research
May 10, 2021
Bassam Hilal ALHarbi, Fatin Abdulrahman Mhedat, Ziad M. Alkhazaleh
5 citations
The study aimed to identify the level of mindfulness, psychological resilience, depression, and its correlation to psychological resilience and depression of distinguished students. To achieve objectives of the study, Toronto scale for mindfulness, scale of psychological resilience, and Beck depression list were used. Findings of the study unveiled that the level of mindfulness and...
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...
PsyArXiv
May 8, 2021
Joy Xu, Helen Jo, Leena Noorbhai et al.
preprint
BACKGROUNDWith the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, students have experienced drastic changes in their academic and social lives with ensuing consequences towards their physical and mental well-being. The purpose of this systematic review is to identify virtual mindfulness-based interventions for the well-being of young adults aged 15 to 40 years in developed countries and examine the efficacy...
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
May 8, 2021
Nina A Cooperman, Adam W. Hanley, Anna Kline et al.
Background: Chronic pain is highly prevalent among people in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) for opioid use disorder and is known to be an important contributor to treatment discontinuation and opioid relapse. Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) is one of the few interventions developed and tested as an integrated treatment to simultaneously address both pain and illicit...