INTRODUCTION Pregnancy is a critical period of heightened vulnerability to mental health challenges. Peer support and mindfulness have individually shown promise as non-pharmacological perinatal mental health strategies, yet their combined potential remains underexplored. This study evaluated the feasibility of a novel intervention integrating peer support with a mindfulness application....
Background: Pregnant women with ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision) affective or stress-related disorders face an elevated risk of perinatal depression and anxiety, yet evidence on digital nonpharmacologic interventions for this population remains limited. Objective: This study evaluated the effectiveness of an 8-week digital mindfulness-based...
Background/context: Anxiety disorders are common in community mental health services and are frequently maintained by worry, rumination, threat monitoring, reassurance seeking, avoidance, and maladaptive attempts to control internal experience. Aim/objective: This perspective chapter examines Detached Mindfulness as a metacognitive technique for anxiety disorders and discusses its clinical...
Stres akademik merupakan kondisi kesehatan mental yang dialami siswa ketika mereka merasa bahwa tuntutan akademik melebihi kapasitas kognitif, waktu, energi, dan sistem dukungan yang mereka miliki. Mindfulness merupakan kemampuan untuk hadir sepenuhnya pada saat ini secara sengaja, terbuka, dan tanpa menghakimi. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara mindfulness dan stres...
Social MedicineSeptember 1, 2026Megha Pundir, Ruchi Tripathi, Bhola Nath Maurya et al.
Background: University students frequently experience significant stress due to various factors, including academic pressure. Mindfulness-based interventions, such as yoga and Om meditation, show promise in reducing stress and improving mental well-being. However, further research is needed to determine their efficacy, particularly among university students.Aim.To evaluate the effectiveness of...
The objective of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in improving the quality of life and perceived stress of individuals with coronary heart disease. The current research was conducted with a semi-experimental method, a pre-test-post-test design, a control group, and a two-month follow-up period, with a practical purpose. The statistical...
Mind-body techniques such as meditation, yoga, and pranayama have gained increasing recognition as holistic approaches for promoting physical, mental, and emotional well-being. These practices integrate awareness, controlled breathing, physical postures, relaxation, and focused attention to support balance between the mind and body. Meditation may promote mental clarity, emotional regulation,...
Career transitions require individuals to fundamentally redefine their working identity-the amalgam of professional roles, relationships, and narratives that constitutes one's sense of self at work. Although Ibarra's seminal "test-and-learn" model has advanced the current understanding of how identity transitions unfold, the psychological mechanisms that enable or constrain this process remain...
ExploreSeptember 1, 2026Maryanna Klatt, Elizabeth Palmer Kelly, Odysseas P Chatzipanagiotou et al.
Background The operating room (OR) is a high-stress, time-constrained environment where team focus is critical to patient safety. Mindfulness-based interventions can improve stress and attention, but their duration often limits integration into the surgical workflow. We evaluated the acceptability and initial perceptions of a brief, 1-minute mindfulness exercise delivered to the surgical team...
Modern organizations are increasingly confronted with issues surrounding ethical choices, employee welfare, accountable leadership, stakeholder interactions, and unpredictability. These advancements have sparked interest in management viewpoints that go beyond just efficiency and financial outcomes. Buddhist philosophy has garnered interest in this regard for its focus on ethical behavior,...
Over the past thirty years, the DOHaD (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease) paradigm has radically transformed our understanding of the aetiology of chronic diseases, shifting the focus from genetic determinism to the biological plasticity of early life. This perspective converges naturally with Psycho-Neuro-Endocrine-Immunology (PNEI), which interprets the organism not as a collection...
Background: Patients with cervical cancer or High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion (HSIL) often experience mental problems such as anxiety and depression. Online mindfulness-based interventions offer accessible mental health support. However, evidence for cervical cancer or HSIL patients remains scarce, and evaluations often rely solely on self-reported scales, with a lack of...
Vipassana meditation is an insight-oriented contemplative practice that emphasizes sustained observation of present-moment experience and non-reactive awareness. Interest in its possible cognitive effects has increased, yet the evidence is distributed across heterogeneous studies using different populations, interventions, and neurocognitive outcomes. This narrative review synthesizes evidence...
PsychophysiologySeptember 2026Salim Onbasi, Wojciech Kielbus, C J Brush et al.
Although the beneficial effects of acute aerobic exercise (AE) and mindfulness (MF) on emotional well-being are well-documented, whether these two intervention modalities can be combined to maximize these benefits remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the combined effect of AE and MF on affective responses and emotional reactivity. Using a within-subject crossover...
BACKGROUND: In recent years, teacher well-being and fairness in assessment have emerged as critical issues in higher education, particularly in contexts of rising stress and burnout. This study employed a correlational research design to investigate the relationships among mindfulness, psychological distress, mental health, and assessment fairness among senior high school teachers in Ghana....
Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions among nurses. Background: The demanding workload and high emotional investment inherent in nursing practice render nurses vulnerable to compassion fatigue, job burnout, and traumatic stress. Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted across major English and Chinese electronic databases. Eligibility criteria were...
Metacognition and mindfulness are central to contemporary accounts of anxiety, yet their comparative profiles across social anxiety disorder (SAD) and panic disorder (PD) remain insufficiently defined. The objective of this study is to compare metacognition and mindfulness across SAD, PD and healthy controls (HC) and to examine how these processes predict disorder specific severity. Adults with...
Abstract Background Studies and the S3 practice guidelines in psychiatry and psychotherapy show that health-promoting measures are highly relevant in the treatment of mental illness. Current psychiatric care research still shows ambivalent findings regarding the effects of specific diets on psychopathogenic symptoms. In particular, the quality of nutrition and different effects in a...
En contextos institucionales de alta exigencia, como el ámbito militar, la conducta del líder no depende únicamente de su formación técnica, sino también de patrones automáticos asociados a su estructura psicológica. Este ensayo teórico analiza el papel del mindfulness en el fortalecimiento del autoliderazgo mediante el desarrollo de la autoconciencia y la regulación emocional. Integrando...
Public health challengesSeptember 2026Phuntsho Wangdi, Choki Wangmo, Sonam Wangzin Rabjay et al.
Student stress is an important public health concern. Mindfulness and Therapeutic Yoga Practice (Sorig Zhiney and Luejong) has been introduced in selected Bhutanese schools to promote student well-being, but evidence regarding students' perceived stress and experiences of these practices remains limited. This comparative cross-sectional study included 1035 students in Classes IX-XII from four...