Background: There is increasing research exploring non-pharmacological approaches to supporting patients living with dementia. Aim: This study explored a mindfulness intervention based on the manual by Chan et al. (2017) to determine whether it could be implemented on an older adult inpatient ward to support wellbeing. The pilot programme was delivered to service users with cognitive...
This study examined the parallel mediating roles of gratitude and love for animals in the association between mindfulness and psychological well-being on a sample of 408 adults. The study was conducted on 408 adult participants from Türkiye with an average age of 35. The results showed that psychological well-being was positively correlated with mindfulness, gratitude, and love for animals....
Abstract Social work is a profession with a high risk of emotional exhaustion and burnout. Although personal and organizational self-care is essential, professionals tend to prioritize users’ needs and engage in self-care only to a limited extent. In recent years, mindfulness has become established as a strategy for self-care and self-awareness, with growing evidence of its benefits. However,...
Emerging adulthood is a developmental stage typically ranging from 18 to 29 years of age. It is characterized by significant changes in development, increase in responsibilities, and heightened exposure to stressors related to several factors like education, career, relationships, and identity formation. Effective management of stress during this period is important for maintaining...
Objective: This study aimed to examine nursing students’ mindfulness, anger, interpersonal relationship styles, and the factors related to these variables. Method: This was a cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational study. It was conducted with 474 students (354 female; 120 male) enrolled in the Faculty of Nursing at a public university. Data were collected using a personal information...
October 21, 2026Joshua Cain, Micah Alan Johnson, Amirvala Tavakoli et al.
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Sustained contemplative practice confers well-documented psychological and physiological benefits, yet the experiential deepening that motivates practitioners can require many hours of practice, and mastery is not assured. Methods that accelerate training would broaden access to these benefits and could also test mechanism: the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), caudate, and anterior insula are...
Introduction Indigenous cultures across Turtle Island have long promoted wellness through language, ceremony, storytelling, movement, community connection, and relationships with the natural world. These cultural practices may serve as important pathways for healing and health promotion. At the same time, Indigenous communities experience disproportionate rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD),...
This paper takes the concept of sabbakāya-pat ̣isaṃvedī (“experi-encing the whole body”) in the Ānāpānasati Sutta as an anchor point to examine the interpretative differences between Theravada and some Selected Northern Buddhist traditions. Since the original canonical phrasing is brief and open-ended, it leaves ample room for the later interpretations. In the Theravada (Southern) tradition,...
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been identified as a complementary treatment for children with ADHD. While there is a growing interest in developing MBIs in online formats, its application in parents is largely based on healthy populations. A two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) was designed to investigate the effectiveness of an online MBI (arm 1) compared with an online...
The study described in the source article was conducted to fill a gap in existing research, which has not explored how the full range of mindfulness components influence the relationship between occupational and organizational stress and mental health symptoms, or how self-compassion influences this relationship. This research shows that one facet of mindfulness – being non-judgemental about...
BACKGROUND: Effective and accessible approaches to prevent depressive relapse and reduce symptoms are crucial for addressing the major public health problem of depression among perinatal women. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Mindful Mood Balance (MMB) for Moms plus usual care (hereafter MMB for Moms)-a web-based mindfulness-based cognitive therapy programme customised for perinatal...
October 20, 2026Junling Gao, Yilin Zhang, Hank Leung et al.
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Portable electroencephalography (EEG) allows neural activity to be recorded from whole classrooms, but correlated activity across students can arise from shared instructions, parallel changes in arousal or common artefact rather than interpersonal coupling, and dyads within one class are not independent observations. In this exploratory analysis, single-channel frontal EEG was recorded during...
October 20, 2026Fedal Saini, Hagar Tal, Ruben Laukkonen et al.
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First-person reports reveal a surprising convergence between symptoms of depersonalisation disorder (DPD) and certain forms of advanced meditation (AM). In both, individuals describe a fading, and even disappearance, of the ordinarily stable sense of being an embodied self. Yet the experiential tone and functional consequences strikingly differ. In DPD this alteration is endured as distressing...
Mindfulness-based interventions are known to enhance emotion regulation and stress management, yet their neural mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Effective coping strategies for emotion regulation and stress management would be particularly beneficial for healthcare students, frequently exposed to highly stressful situations. Based on prior work implicating hippocampal-somatomotor...
Latar Belakang: Kecemasan merupakan salah satu masalah kesehatan mental yang sering dialami lansia akibat perubahan fisik, psikologis, dan sosial yang terjadi selama proses penuaan. Kondisi ini dapat menurunkan kualitas hidup serta meningkatkan risiko gangguan kesehatan apabila tidak ditangani secara tepat. Salah satu intervensi nonfarmakologis yang dapat digunakan untuk menurunkan tingkat...
Rajyoga meditation is the special form of meditation implying the expansion of the self or self-awareness or rather the spiritual being and positive interaction with the self and higher powers. Meditation became popular because of its numerous benefits, for instance, psychological stability, increased emotional control, reduced level of stress, and improved self-esteem. Adult women, in...
Abstract Background: African American cancer caregivers (AACCs) disproportionately assume caregiving responsibilities, often serving as sole unpaid caregivers to provide extensive support to their loved one. AACCs face financial strain, unemployment, psychological distress, sleep disturbance, medical mistrust, mental health stigma, and caregiving expectations shaped by family and cultural...
Body imageOctober 17, 2026Kriti Kelkar, Annika P C Lutz, Anna E Kornadt et al.
Instagram use has been linked to body image concerns. However, voluntarily abstaining from social media ("digital detox") as a strategy to mitigate this association has yielded mixed results. This raises the question of whether a complementary problem-focused intervention can strengthen the benefits of abstinence on body image outcomes. Building on this premise, the present one-week...
Mindfulness-based interventions have shown promise in supporting psychological well-being in children. However, mindfulness is commonly measured using self-report questionnaires, a method that might be problematic due to its reliance on children's accurate self-perceptions of their own mindfulness and the potential influence of social desirability bias. In the current study, we examined the...
Harmony Meditation is a meditative practice codified in Italy in the 1990s by AlessandroMahony, derived from the Zen tradition and integrated with psychological, psychophysiological,and neuropsychological expertise. Unlike approaches such as Mindfulness and TranscendentalMeditation, it does not exhaust itself in non-judgmental observation or in the mechanicalrepetition of a mantra, but rather...