ABSTRACT Academic stress, coupled with the challenges of the modern educational system, has created a need for comprehensive interventions to address the mental health of college students and enhance their positive functioning . This study aimed to determine whether a 4-week mindfulness meditation, guided imagery, and gratitude journaling intervention would be effective in improving college...
Purpose: This study was conducted to reveal the effect of mindfulness practices on nursing students' stress-coping behaviors and positive thinking skills. Method: This was a two-group parallel nonrandomized study. Mindfulness practices were applied to the students in the experimental group. Data were collected using research tools (Personal Information Form, Positive Thinking Skills Scale, and...
Objective: Most undergraduate students experience high stress levels, necessitating university support. Meditation-based programs can encourage student wellbeing. This research examined the feasibility of a for-credit undergraduate mindfulness course, its effectiveness in helping students develop a mindfulness practice, and its potential impact on healthy development. Participants: Twenty-nine...
Recent advancements in virtual reality (VR)-enhanced mindfulness training have demonstrated efficacy in reducing anxiety, particularly among novice practitioners and university students. However, existing VR mindfulness interventions predominantly rely on static natural environments without incorporating interactive elements, limiting their capacity to engage users dynamically. To address this...
The effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in enhancing mental well-being and reducing positive, negative, and depressive symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) has been increasingly supported by evidence. However, the underlying mechanisms of MBIs require further examination. Psychological flexibility (PF), typically assessed through cognitive fusion, has been...
BMC PsychiatryJune 4, 2025Yuekun Wu, Yue Ban, Guoliang Pan et al.6 citations
Psychiatric healthcare workers experience prolonged exposure to psychological trauma and negative emotions, which ultimately predisposes them to mental health issues. The effectiveness of online mindfulness-based stress reduction training on depression and anxiety symptoms among psychiatric healthcare workers (HCWs) and the possible mechanisms that benefit these outcomes remain unclear. This...
Introduction: Survivors from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds tend to experience cancer-related fatigue (CRF) at higher rates than non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs), often leading to a decline in quality of life (QOL). It is crucial to consider the impact their marginalized identities have on cancer outcomes. Although yoga has shown promise as a supportive intervention for CRF and QOL,...
Mindfulness meditation training may cultivate interoceptive awareness and provide therapeutic benefit when implemented within mental and physical health interventions. This pre-registered meta-analysis evaluated the impact of mindfulness interventions on self-reported interoception measures and associated relationships with psychological outcomes. Twenty-nine randomized controlled trials with...
Compassion is a valuable, trainable skill which can bring significant benefits to oneself and others. One method for developing compassion towards others is Tonglen, a Tibetan Buddhist meditation which involves taking in suffering from others and sending them well-being. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychophysiological outcomes of Tonglen meditation in healthcare workers, a...
JMIR human factorsJune 3, 2025Lucy McCarren, Sanna Kuoppamäki4 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions have been demonstrated to be effective in improving bodily and emotional well-being. However, only a few studies have explored individual differences in the application and use of digital mindfulness among adults aged ≥65 years. Voice-guided mindfulness technologies can increase the accessibility of mindfulness training, but the expected benefits may not be...
Om chanting is a fundamental practice in yoga and meditation, known for its potential cognitive and physiological benefits. This review aims to explore the effects of Om chanting on cognitive functions, particularly memory, attention, and executive function, among healthy individuals. Several studies indicate that Om chanting modulates brain activity, enhances neural connectivity, and improves...
June 2, 2025Maris Vainre, Lisa Doan, Cecilie S. Traberg et al.
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Misinformation about mindfulness is increasingly common, misleading consumers to engage in ineffective or potentially harmful programs. Inoculation theory suggests that resistance to misinformation can be fostered by inducing a sense of threat and offering pre-emptive refutations of deceptive techniques. Yet, its application to mindfulness misinformation remains unexplored. Here, we evaluate...
This paper examines the effects of mindfulness training on students attending a senior military college in the United States. In a 4-week pilot study (n = 31) and a subsequent in-depth 8-week study (n = 66, 18 women), participants were randomly assigned to a mindfulness training group (MG) or a nutrition training control group (CG). Each group completed a 60 min weekly training workshop, 20 min...
Behavioral and psychological therapies have been shown to be beneficial in insomnia treatment. YouTube, a video-based social media platform, has become the most widely used platform and is easily accessible to everyone. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of expert-led YouTube-delivered mind-body interventions (MBIs), including mindfulness, breathwork, and mental imagery, on sleep...
Individuals with substance use disorders often report altered interoceptive awareness of internal bodily signals. However, it is unclear whether these alterations also extend to patients with chronic pain who misuse opioids, and whether interventions that enhance interoceptive awareness, such as mindfulness-based therapies, may reduce opioid misuse in this population. At baseline, participants...
Abstract Grief is a profound life stressor that impacts multiple psychological outcomes. Mind-body interventions like Mindfulness Training (MT) and Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) show promise for addressing negative psychological sequelae of grief. The present study investigated the effects of MT and PMR on secondary outcomes of grief including depressive symptoms, negative and positive...
Objective: Adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) have risk for elevated negative affect, and mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) may be effective interventions. The aim of this case series was to (1) highlight individual changes in negative affect (depression, anxiety, and stress), mindfulness, and diabetes outcomes (diabetes distress, diabetes self-management, and HbA1c) after participating...
In recent years, the problem of negative emotions and job burnout among clinical front-line medical staff has become more and more serious, among which the pediatric emergency department has a large flow of patients, and the health and safety of children is the focus of family attention. Now under the new fertility policy, the number of pediatric patients will increase. Pediatric nurses due to...
MindfulnessJune 1, 2025Phillip Thiedmann, Florence Dejardin, Leonhard Reiter et al.
Abstract Objectives Evidence on the link between socio-cognitive (Langerian) mindfulness and cognitive biases is scarce. A recent study reported that a brief online socio-cognitive mindfulness intervention substantially improved performance in a variety of cognitive-bias tasks. The current report attempted to replicate this finding with considerably larger samples, using two preregistered...