Workplace Health & Safety
April 2023
King Pascual, Amiad Fredman, Athanasios Naum et al.
Research on burnout in the medical community has extensively studied the impact of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), which can include meditation, outdoor retreats, in-person didactics, and/or online wellness modules. However, in addition to these MBIs lacking objective, physiological measures for wellness, there has been little to no research involving virtual reality (VR) as an MBI...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
April 1, 2023
Fran Grace
This video spotlights the diverse learning environments of the University of Redlands' pioneering meditation program in its first 16 years of academic classes and community offerings. As reported in places such as Inside Higher Ed (Redden, 2007, December 18) and books published from the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute (Astin et al., Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance...
Current Psychology
April 1, 2023
Alan Maddock, Carolyn Blair
Abstract: This study aimed to systematically review studies which conducted a controlled mediation analysis in order to examine the potential mechanisms which underlie mindfulness-based programme’s (MBPs) effects on anxiety, depression and psychological distress in any health or mental health population. Searches of six databases (Medline (Ovid), PsycINFO, Cochrane Central Register of...
Mindfulness
April 1, 2023
Isa Zappullo, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Roberta Cecere et al.
Abstract: Objectives: Available data suggest that inflexible allocation of attention in people on the autism spectrum can lead to anxiety and depression symptoms, through the increase of repetitive negative thinking (worry and rumination). In the present study, we used dispositional mindfulness as a proxy to attention flexibility and tested its role in the influence of repetitive negative...
Journal of pediatric psychology
April 1, 2023
Olivia Hughes, Katherine H Shelton, Helen Penny et al.
Objectives: This systematic review aimed to identify and appraise studies investigating the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) for improving depression, anxiety and parental stress in families affected by childhood physical illnesses, as well as feasibility and acceptability. Methods: Embase, PsycINFO, Scopus, Medline, and PubMed were searched between February 2 and 17, 2021,...
Journal of Consumer Affairs
April 1, 2023
Jutta M. Tobias
13 citations
Abstract This conceptual analysis contributes to extending the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumers and society by creating a mindfulness matrix that uncovers new linkages across previously siloed mindfulness literatures and by arguing that next‐generation mindfulness research and practice should draw on underexplored synergies between these. The paper makes three key...
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
April 2023
Marc J. Weintraub, Danielle Denenny, Megan Ichinose et al.
There is substantial evidence that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) improve symptoms and functioning in adults with mood and psychotic disorders. There has been little work directly comparing these treatments among adolescents with early-onset mood or psychosis symptoms. We conducted a randomized controlled trial comparing remotely administered...
Revista médica de Chile
April 1, 2023
Francisco J. Villalón López, Maximiliano Escaffi‐Schwarz, Adrian P. Mundt
4 citations
BACKGROUND: The increasing use of Mindfulness-based interventions requires standardized construct-based measurement instruments for clinical and research purposes. The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire scale with five factors was developed in the United States and validated in Spain. There are versions of 39, 24 and 15 items (FFMQ-39, FFMQ-24 and FFMQ-15). OBJECTIVE: To validate the FFMQ-24...
Journal of Consumer Affairs
April 1, 2023
Kyungin Ryu
5 citations
Abstract This article created a consumer and an academic mindfulness dictionary to better understand consumers', academics', and marketers' perceptions of mindfulness. A consumer survey and text mining methods were used to create the consumer dictionary, and an extensive review of mindfulness definitions was used for the academic dictionary. The consumer dictionary described mindfulness more in...
Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative
April 1, 2023
Ivana Buric, Miguel Farias, Stoyan Kurtev et al.
9 citations
This study was the first to test the feasibility of mind-body interventions with a randomised control research design in a sample that contains all ten types of personality disorders, and the first to provide a preliminary evaluation of responses using a combination of psychological, genomic, neural, and behavioural measures. Thirty prisoners with personality disorders were recruited within a...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
April 1, 2023
Rasoul Heshmati, Bassam Khoury, Shahin Azmoodeh et al.
The present study was developed to evaluate the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the level of emotional flexibility and ambivalence related to emotional expression of divorced women. A general community sample of 30 divorced women was recruited and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received MBSR for 8 weeks, and the control group...
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
April 2023
Cheryl Durand, Maryann R Cooper, Carroll-Ann Goldsmith
Objective. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of a live 14-week mindfulness elective course on the well-being of Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students in an accelerated program.Methods. Pharmacy students enrolled in a mindfulness elective participated in weekly class sessions that included an eight-week mindfulness program geared toward emerging adults. Eight weekly...
Sleep Health
April 2023
Leslie C M Johnson, Jacob J Aiello, Ashna Jagtiani et al.
To evaluate the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of using a mindfulness meditation mobile application to improve sleep quality among a diverse group of adults. This explanatory qualitative study used online focus group discussions (N = 4 groups with 17 individuals) to collect information about user experiences with a mindfulness meditation mobile application (Headspace) among...
April 1, 2023
Shokooh Shahidi, Fatemeh Zargar, Hassan Aghaee Khajelangi et al.
8 citations
Background: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a widespread disease all over the world that has caused many psychological complications such as health anxiety (HA) and low quality of life (QOL). Mindfulness-based approaches could improve these complications. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of Internet-delivered mindfulness stress reduction combined with acceptance and...
Mindfulness
April 2023
Hannah A Carlon, Jennifer Earnest, Margo C Hurlocker
Previous research cites mindfulness as a protective factor against risky substance use, but the specific association between dispositional mindfulness (DM) and cannabis use has been inconsistent. Despite known heterogeneity of DM facets across college students, much of the prior research in this area has relied on variable-centered approaches. Only a handful of prior studies within the cannabis...
Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
April 2023
Samani U Pragya, Samani C Pragya, Anthony J. Griswold et al.
Introduction: The stress and psychological factors affect the human transcriptomic and epigenomic landscapes. Preksha Dhyana meditation (PM) was found to be effective, in novice healthy college student meditators, at the cognitive skills and transcriptomic levels. Recently published data showed that PM induced alterations at the transcriptome level in healthy and novice college students....
Journal of Religion & Film
April 1, 2023
Wanda E Avila
1 citation
Baraka: A World Beyond Words (1992) is a guided meditation that aims to induce the transcendent experience in the viewer. Through the eyes of a Zen Buddhist monk, the viewer is invited to meditate on the various phenomena that testify to the existence of the transcendent (the first eight chapters), to experience the everyday world where the transcendent is painfully absent (the next eleven...
Mindfulness
April 1, 2023
Stella Kümmerle, Thomas Heidenreich, Meike Müller-Engelmann
Abstract Objectives Despite various methodological concerns, previous studies mainly use questionnaires to assess mindfulness. Following a multi-measurement approach, the present study aimed to evaluate the added value of an experience-sampling measure in the context of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. Method Data were collected in a PTSD group, depression group, and control...
Psychological Medicine
April 1, 2023
Eric L Garland, Spencer T Fix, Justin Hudak et al.
51 citations
Neuropsychopharmacologic effects of long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) in the context of chronic pain may result in subjective anhedonia coupled with decreased attention to natural rewards. Yet, there are no known efficacious treatments for anhedonia and reward deficits associated with chronic opioid use. Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE), a novel behavioral intervention combining...
Mindfulness
April 1, 2023
Carly Hunt, Janelle E. Letzen, Samuel R Krimmel et al.
9 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have emerged as promising prophylactic episodic migraine treatments. The present study investigated biopsychosocial predictors and outcomes associated with formal, daily-life meditation practice in migraine patients undergoing MBI, and whether augmented mindfulness mechanistically underlies change. Secondary analyses of clinical trial data comparing a...