Contemporary Clinical Trials
September 2022
David S Black, Matthew G. Kirkpatrick
A majority of the 34 million people who currently smoke cigarettes report wanting to quit smoking yet most attempts to quit end in relapse. A mindfulness based intervention (MBI) is an intervention package used to reinforce an individual's practice of mindfulness meditation in daily life. MBIs delivered by phone app offer daily prompts to guide bouts of mindfulness meditation, that is,...
Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
September 2022
Oskar Lundgren, Peter Garvin, Lennart Nilsson et al.
Depressive symptoms after coronary events are associated with a worse prognosis. When changing the focus from psychopathology towards a resilience framework, treatments such as mindfulness meditation could offer novel ways to address psychological distress among coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. We studied the feasibility of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for CAD patients with...
Pain Practice
September 1, 2022
Tara D. Sarkar, Robert R Edwards, Nancy Baker
Abstract There is an urgent need for safe and effective nonpharmacologic approaches to treat chronic knee pain in older adults. Although virtual reality (VR) has shown some effectiveness for acute pain, there is limited evidence on the effects of VR on chronic pain particularly with older adult populations. This single application, within‐subject pilot study evaluated the feasibility and...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
September 1, 2022
Yiwei Tang, Yang Liu, Longjun Jing et al.
Usually, both external environmental factors and internal psychological factors affect the self-efficacy of athletes returning to sports after an injury. Based upon COR theory, this study investigated mindfulness interventions’ effects on competitive state anxiety and burnout in injured athletes who are returning to sports. The study was conducted in South China from March to April 2022. The...
Cureus
September 1, 2022
M. Lata, Himel Mondal, Manish Kumar et al.
Background Medical education is a rigorous formal education with a vast syllabus. Burnout and stresses are common among medical students and more prominent in females. Female medical students suffer from a higher level of stress than male medical students. For the improvement of physical and mental health, meditation, pranayama, and yoga are some of the ancient techniques. Meditation is a...
International Journal of Yoga
September 1, 2022
Senthil K Subramanian, Vidya D Sripad, Amudharaj Dharmalingam et al.
Context: COVID-19-affected patients showed increased stress, impaired sleep quality, altered complete blood count, and increased inflammatory and oxidative parameters. Yoga is an add-on nonpharmacological treatment that is established to normalize the abovementioned parameters. Heartfulness meditation is a form of Raja yoga. Aims: The present study aimed to study the effects of 4 weeks of...
Journal of Affective Disorders
September 1, 2022
Bing Zhang, Wenxian Fu, Yan Guo et al.
BACKGROUND Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) can effectively prevent relapse of major depression, but there is currently insufficient evidence for efficacy against suicidal ideation during depressive episodes. We thus conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing MBCT to treatment as usual (TAU) for suppression of suicidal ideation in...
Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
September 1, 2022
Monika Pathania, Praag Bhardwaj, Yogesh Bahurupi et al.
BACKGROUND Medical professionals (MPs) are facing stress, sleep deprivation, and burnout due to pandemic-related high patient inflow and consistent work shifts. Yoga and meditation are feasible, cost-effective, evidence-based, and well-accepted tools having multifold mental and physical health benefits. DESIGN In this ongoing open-label single-arm trial, we assessed changes in sleep, heart rate...
Mindfulness
September 1, 2022
Nicole Perkins, Taranjit Sehmbi, Patrick Smith
AbstractObjectivesInterventions involving kindness- and compassion-based meditation (KCBM) have been shown to have various benefits for adults, and there is growing interest in using KCBMs with children. This systematic review explores the effects of KCBM on wellbeing, prosociality, and cognitive functioning in children and adolescents.MethodsStudies were eligible if they examined interventions...
Emotion
September 1, 2022
Taylor N West, Brian P Don, Barbara L. Fredrickson
Research on attachment theory holds that insecure attachment influences people's daily social and emotional experiences. Mindfulness meditation and loving-kindness meditation have been associated with improvements in physical and mental well-being often through their influence on emotion experience and regulation. Yet, little research has examined how emotional well-being may be improved in...
JAMA Network Open
September 1, 2022
Sangeeta P Joshi, An-Kwok Ian Wong, Amanda Brucker et al.
Health care workers (HCWs) have been experiencing substantial stress and burnout, and evidence-based mitigation strategies are needed. Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a mantra meditation practice with potential efficacy in reducing stress. To assess the efficacy of TM practice in reducing stress among HCWs over a 3-month period. This single-center open-label randomized clinical trial was...
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
September 1, 2022
Jayesh R. Jadhav
Modern life moves so quickly that there isn't even time to breathe. Science, business, political structures, and other areas of human endeavour have advanced dramatically. They are seeing an upsurge in mental illness, delinquency, crime, drug addiction, alcoholism, and suicide, among other things, despite their advancements in these domains. Social issues have always existed, ranging from...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
September 1, 2022
G. Wong, R. Sun, J. Adler et al.
Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) is an efficient mental practice with a long history that has recently attracted interest in the fields of neuroscience, medicine and education. However, the neural characters and underlying mechanisms have not yet been fully illustrated, which has hindered its practical usefulness. This study aimed to investigate LKM from varied aspects and interactions between...
International Journal of Yoga
September 1, 2022
Mrithunjay Rathore, Meghnath Verma, Mohit Nirwan et al.
28 citations
Meditation is a practice of concentration and relaxation. In philosophical terms, it is a process of gaining self-consciousness. Although there is diversity in meditation (Mindfulness, compassion, transcendental, and focused attention meditation), interventions show that meditation practices improve prefrontal cortex (PFC) functions like cognition, self-awareness, attention, and memory and...
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology
August 31, 2022
Martina Rahe, Fabian Wolff, Petra Jansen
3 citations
The Coronavirus Pandemic has affected the lives of almost everyone. The study's primary goal is to analyze how mindfulness and heartfulness (gratitude and self-compassion) predict well-being and flourishing during the pandemic. Participants were 216 students completing questionnaires about well-being, flourishing, mindfulness, self-compassion, gratitude, physical activity, Coronavirus stress...
Jurnal Sportif
August 30, 2022
Adiwignya Nugraha Widhi Harita, S. Suryanto, Rahkman Ardi
Competitive state anxiety influences cognitive, emotional, and athlete behaviour while they have to perform perfectly in a competition. This study was conducted to analyze the effect of Mindfulness Sports Performance Enhancement (MSPE) training on competitive state anxiety of karate athletes in Surabaya. The research method used is quantitative with an experimental design. The sample in this...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
August 30, 2022
Xia Dong, Xiaojun Li, Xinsheng Jiang et al.
6 citations
The present study aimed to explore the roles of resilience, internal locus of control, and self-esteem in the link between mindfulness and benign/malicious envy (BE/ME). Nine hundred ninety-one participants (299 males, 692 females; mean age = 19.05 ± 1.54) completed a survey that assessed mindfulness, internal locus of control, resilience, self-esteem, and BE/ME. The results suggest that...
Holistic Nursing Practice
August 28, 2022
Pingting Zhu, Qiwei Wu, Xinyi Liu et al.
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) in patients with breast cancer has been reported. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has been found to be effective in improving the psychological well-being during cancer care. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of MBSR on the levels of PTG, perceived social support, and quality of life. A sample of 101 participants who experienced early chemotherapy...
Journal of Consumer Affairs
August 27, 2022
Ellen Campos Sousa, Luciana Freire
15 citations
Abstract This paper offers a novel, easy to execute, mindfulness‐based solution to the waiting time problem at healthcare facilities in particular, with the potential to enhance consumers' experience within a waiting time scenario. Findings of four studies—one in‐class experiment with undergraduates, one field study among adults in a doctor's office, one online experiment in the US, and one...
Death Studies
August 25, 2022
Xiang-Zi Ji, Jia-Yuan Zhang
Abstract Intensive care units (ICUs) nurses experience a high level of death anxiety. Interventions that reduce death anxiety are needed. We conducted a nonrandomized study with 66 ICU nurses. The 34 in the intervention group received an 8-week tailored mindfulness-based intervention and the 32 in the control group received no intervention. Both groups completed pre and post-tests of death...