Background: Work stress has a detrimental impact on individual health and corporate efficiency and productivity. Mindfulness reduces workers' stress and burnout and increases work engagement and performance. Smartphone-based interventions could be an alternative to provide customized training without geographical or economic constraints. This study aims to investigate whether mobile mindfulness...
Mind-body practices have shown to be effective in reducing psychological distress and improving well-being and quality of life in clinical samples and healthy populations. We tested the effects of a body-based mindfulness intervention based on alexithymia, distress symptoms, and dispositional mindfulness among healthy adults. A total of seventy-three participants (mean age 40.1) were assigned...
Objectives This intervention study aimed to evaluate mindfulness meditation as a method of treatment for cancer outpatients for stress reduction and control of symptoms of depression and to find out effects of socio demographic differences. Method Cancer outpatients were randomly selected on separate clinic dates at the National Cancer Institute of Sri Lanka and were enrolled as cases (n=44)...
Background/Objectives: Compassion Fatigue (CF) is a critical issue among healthcare professionals, exacerbated by exposure to trauma and chronic workplace stress. This pilot study evaluates the effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Oriented Professional Resilience (MOPR) program, a structured intervention designed to mitigate CF and enhance resilience in healthcare professionals. The program...
Frontiers in PsychologyJanuary 7, 2025Naeime Arasteh, Reihane Moghimian Shahrbabaki, Monirsadat Nematollahi et al.
Introduction: The birth and admission of a premature infant to the NICU is often an unexpected experience and a mental and spiritual challenge for families. Spiritual health is an influential factor affecting how a mother faces and endures a stressful situation. Improving the mother's spiritual health requires cognitive therapy approaches, including mindfulness techniques. Nurses can help...
The scientific study of lucid sleep, defined as the ability to retain critical self-awareness during ongoing sleep, has traditionally focused on lucid dreaming and induction techniques that specifically target REM sleep. Recently, interest has grown to include other forms of lucid sleep, such as out-of-body experiences, sleep paralysis, and “witnessing-sleep” episodes described in Indian...
This study explores the role of mindfulness in marriage as a potential mediator in the relationship between infidelity tendencies and divorce anxiety among married individuals. Employing a sample of 415 married individuals, the research utilized a correlational model to examine the predictive capacity of marital mindfulness. The assessment involved the Mindfulness in Marriage Scale, Infidelity...
Estimates suggest that meditation use is comparable to mental-health-service access in the United States. Understanding meditation-related adverse effects (AEs) is therefore critical. We aimed to (a) estimate the incidence of meditation-related unusual experiences and AEs using different methods and (b) identify sociodemographic and health-related characteristics predicting their incidence. We...
Interest has been growing in the use of mindfulness meditation (MM) as a therapeutic practice, as accumulating evidence highlights its potential to effectively address a range of mental conditions. While many fMRI studies focused on neural activation and functional connectivity during meditation, the impact of long-term MM practice on spontaneous brain activity, and on the expression of resting...
medRxivJanuary 5, 2025Vinitha Ganesan, Lauren A. Fowler, Sahil Bajaj et al.1 citation
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Abstract Effective interventions are needed to address increasing mental health challenges that affect wellbeing. Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY), a breath-based meditation, has previously shown to improve mental health. We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) in healthy individuals, to evaluate the feasibility of SKY intervention with an eight-week followup for studying its immediate...
The mechanisms through which the blended mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program improves diabetes self-management among individuals with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remain unclear. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of blended MBSR on perceived stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms, while also exploring the potential mechanisms underlying its effects on improving...
Chronic pain affects millions worldwide, creating a substantial burden on individuals and healthcare systems alike. This systematic review investigates the efficacy of mindfulness meditation as a complementary intervention for chronic pain management. By synthesizing findings from various studies, the review explores how mindfulness meditation contributes to pain reduction, the mechanisms...
To cope with chronic stress, which can contribute to depression, humans often pursue arousal-reducing activities. Yet, hormetic stressors (intermittent, acute stressors) might also reduce chronic stress. We compared the effects of arousal-reducing and arousal-enhancing interventions on depressive symptoms and perceived stress. Female adults (N = 141; predominantly White, 63%, and Asian, 34%)...
App-based mindfulness meditation programs have shown mixed effects in reducing stress levels. These studies have typically relied on limited assessments of dimensions of stress and on pre-post designs to detect effects. This randomized controlled trial examined the effect of the mindfulness meditation app Headspace on reducing subjective stress, stressor appraisals, perceived coping, and...
Background: This study explores how personality traits and mindfulness facets interact to influence perceived stress, focusing on a Chinese adult sample. It aims to address gaps in understanding the combined effects of dispositional and mindfulness factors on stress. Methods: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods design was employed. In the quantitative phase, 637 Chinese adults completed...
TThe aim of this study was to examine the effect of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy training on mental skills of young soccer players. For this purpose, 30 soccer players were assigned to an experimental group of 15 players (intervention based on Mindfulness) and control group of 15 players that participations’ age ranged from 17 to 20 years old in provincial competitions in the year...
Background/Objectives: Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death, and psychosocial stress is considered a contributing factor to these issues. With the rising number of heart surgeries, proper rehabilitation post-surgery is essential. Previous studies have demonstrated the positive impact of yoga and transcendental meditation on the cardiovascular system. This pilot study aimed to...
ABSTRACT Stress is widely experienced. Relaxation practices, including mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and breathing exercises, are often used to combat stress, but can be difficult to maintain in everyday life. Virtual reality (VR) therapies appear to address stress in various contexts, and can be used to support relaxation techniques, including meditation, as they are immersive and can...
ABSTRACT Objective This pilot study assessed the feasibility and preliminary effects of an 8-week digital Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) intervention on perinatal depression, mindfulness, well-being, and work motivation among pregnant working women. Methods The intervention included weekly online sessions and mindfulness audio guides. Pre- and post-assessments used the EPDS, TFMQ,...
The research examined the correlation between mindfulness and the subjective well-being of doctoral scholars. The compilation of the PhD scholars’ data was obtained from universities offering doctoral programs from two states, viz., Assam and Meghalaya, of India. A simple random sampling method was employed to choose 112 PhD candidates, including 43.5% male and 56.5% female participants. The...