Australian Critical Care
October 14, 2026
Rahul Joshi, Gayatri Marwah, Sainath Raman et al.
BACKGROUND: Paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) clinicians are particularly susceptible to workplace stress due to frequent ethical dilemmas (for example, perceptions of futile or unethical treatment), patient morbidity and mortality, sleep disruption, and emotional exhaustion, putting them at increased risk of anxiety, depression, and burnout. The psychological well-being of these healthcare...
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
October 14, 2026
Saloumeh DeGood, Sundas Azim, Naz Fatah et al.
Abstract Recent literature highlights the inadequacy of stress reduction and self-awareness skills in the professional development of healthcare students. Pharmacy educational programs report high rates of burnout and stress-related psychological impact on student well-being and academic performance. Meditative practices have been shown to reduce stress and anxiety in pharmacy students. M.T.O....
Journal of Happytalism and Fundamental Peace
October 14, 2026
Satinder Singh Rekhi, Saamdu Chetri, Luis Miguel Gallardo et al.
**Background.** Contemplative traditions have long associated water with stillness, concealment and renewal, and divers frequently describe underwater experience as meditative. This review asks whether immersion and submersion offer a distinctive context for mindfulness practice, and what the current evidence can and cannot support. **Methods.** A narrative review integrating epic and canonical...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 14, 2026
Victor Oswald, David Zarka, Riku Johannes Ihalainen et al.
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How mental training reshapes the temporal architecture of large-scale brain dynamics and how these mechanisms differ between healthy and clinically vulnerable populations remains poorly understood. Time-averaged neural measures collapse the multi-scale nature of brain activity, obscuring the dynamic processes through which behavioural interventions reorganise hierarchical brain function. Here,...
Journal of Global Social Transformation
October 13, 2026
Rabia Aftab Sethi, Urooj Tara
Color mandala activities are art based tasks that can be used as a structured activity for focused attention, emotional regulation and reflective experience. They may be related to spiritual attitude, happiness, and mindfulness, which should be investigated in adults empirically.The study evaluated the effectiveness of a color mandala intervention on spiritual attitude, happiness, and...
Research Portal
October 13, 2026
Tamsin Ford, Rachel Childs, Rachel Hayes et al.
Adolescents and carers using mindfulness Therapy To END depression (ATTEND): Study Protocol for a parallel randomized controlled superiority trial of Mindfulness for Adolescents and Carers (MAC) for depression among young people aged 15 to 18 years old in the UK with an embedded economic evaluation.
Arthritis Care & Research
October 13, 2026
Angela M. Mickle, Jared J Tanner, Samuel S Wu et al.
The Pain Relief for OsteoArthritis through Combined Treatment (PROACT) was a proof-of-principle mechanistic randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of Breathing and Attention Training (BAT), and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on pain modulatory balance, pain-related brain function, and clinical pain in middle-aged to older adults with knee osteoarthritis (OA)....
Art Therapy
October 13, 2026
Theresa van Lith, Eliza Connors, Patricia D. Isis
Teacher wellbeing is essential for sustainable professional practice, yet regional educators face heightened stress and limited professional development access. This study examined a single-session Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy Doodling Intervention (MBAT-DI) designed to strengthen teachers’ psychological resilience resources. Thirty-five regional teachers in Victoria, Australia participated in...
Revista horizonte académico
October 13, 2026
Franchesca Zadoth Jane Nieto Ferrer
Este informe presenta un análisis documental secundario de un único ensayo controlado aleatorizado publicado, que evaluó la eficacia de intervenciones de mindfulness en estudiantes universitarios durante la pandemia de COVID-19, comparando tres modalidades -presencial, basada en aplicación móvil y combinada- frente a un grupo control activo que recibió formación en comunicación. El objetivo fue...
F1000Research
October 13, 2026
Dailami Firdaus, Heni Rochimah, Reni Armiati
Background Hybrid learning requires students to sustain attention, regulate emotions, and use technology purposefully across physical and virtual spaces. Digital mindfulness has mainly been studied as a means of reducing psychological distress; its role as a pedagogical strategy for engagement has not been systematically synthesised. We aimed to identify the forms of digital mindfulness...
Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
October 13, 2026
Vintu Augustine, Greta D’Souza
Background: One in seven (13%) adolescents around the world suffer from mental health concerns. Youth in culturally diverse and under-resourced areas are no different. Mindfulness-based interventions seem to help promote mental well-being among adolescents. This study examined the effect of an 8-week school-based intervention, Integrated Mindfulness Meditation for Adolescents (IMM-A), on...
PsyArXiv
October 13, 2026
Preslava Hristova, Silvy Collin
preprint
Optimizing human cognitive functioning requires a delicate balance between top-down self-regulation and bottom-up motivational reinforcement. However, the precise temporal trade-offs between these opposing trajectories (specifically, immediate reward-driven gains versus gradual mindfulness-based structural adaptation) remain poorly understood. Using a mixed longitudinal design, we assessed...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 12, 2026
Rajesh Arora Dipendra Nath Subedi
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Medical students frequently experience considerable academic, clinical, and interpersonal pressures that may contribute to psychological stress and negatively affect their well-being and academic functioning. Brahma Kumaris Rajyoga Meditation is a contemplative practice emphasizing self-awareness, positive thinking, inner peace, and emotional stability, and may provide a complementary approach...
Revista Foco
October 12, 2026
María Fernanda Peña Hernández
La adolescencia tardía constituye una etapa de desarrollo caracterizada por importantes cambios biológicos, psicológicos y sociales que pueden influir en la capacidad de regular las emociones. El objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar el efecto de un entrenamiento en mindfulness sobre la regulación emocional en jóvenes universitarios de 18 a 19 años. Se empleó un diseño cuantitativo,...
Frontiers in Digital Health
October 12, 2026
Marie Vazquez Morgan, Suzanne Tinsley
Introduction: : Anxiety is common among graduate and professional students. Meditation has been shown to reduce anxiety symptoms, and virtual reality (VR)-guided meditation has emerged as a more immersive approach that may increase engagement. This pilot study evaluated the feasibility, adherence, and preliminary anxiety outcomes associated with VR-guided and audio-guided meditation among...
Psychology, Health & Medicine
October 12, 2026
Sara Hosseini, Azam Maleki, Omid Saed et al.
This study evaluated the impact of mindfulness-based counseling on shame in women with Human Papillomavirus (HPV), addressing the gap in standardized mental health support and the often-overlooked emotional distress in HPV care. This randomized controlled trial was conducted in 2024 at Ayatollah Mousavi Hospital in Zanjan, Iran. Participants were recruited during routine visits and randomly...
Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health
October 12, 2026
Elahe Cholbeigi, Nasim Bahrami, Mohammad Ebrahim Sarichloo et al.
This cluster randomized controlled trial examined whether mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) improves health-related quality of life (HRQoL), work-related quality of life (WRQoL), and reduces the impact of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) on daily life among working women with PMS. From August 2023 to May 2024, working women from 20 schools were randomized into intervention or control...
Politicas Sociales Sectoriales
October 12, 2026
Saul Obed Benítez Mendiola, Francisco Rafael Guzmán Facundo, Josefina Saraí Candia Arredondo
El estrés laboral representa un problema relevante de salud ocupacional que afecta el bienestar psicológico y el desempeño de los trabajadores. Las intervenciones basadas en mindfulness se han propuesto como estrategias para mejorar la regulación emocional y reducir los efectos del estrés en contextos organizacionales. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el efecto de una intervención basada...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 12, 2026
德猛 杨, Jianli Zhu, Huipeng Lu
Schizophrenia patients often experience frailty due to persistent hallucinations, delusions, negative symptoms, and social stigmatization, severely impacting their quality of life and psychosocial functioning. Recently, mindfulness intervention therapy has emerged as a supplementary treatment for residual symptoms and functional decline in schizophrenia. Numerous controlled studies, systematic...
International Journal of Contemporary Business Research
October 12, 2026
R. D. Weerasinghe, M.P.N. Janadari
The widespread adoption of digital technologies in today’s workplaces has sparked academic interest in digital mindfulness as a potential solution to improve employee well-being and mitigate the negative psychological effects of technology use. However, the existing evidence is dispersed across multiple disciplines and therefore fragmented, preventing a full understanding of how digital...