Background: Late-life depression (LLD) is a growing public health concern in aging populations. Although digital mindfulness interventions show promise for depression, anxiety, and insomnia, their efficacy and electroencephalogram (EEG) correlates in older adults with LLD remain unclear. This study evaluated the FocusZen Mindfulness Stress Reduction System, a digital mindfulness intervention...
Investigations into mindfulness and well-being have increasingly turned toward social outcomes such as compassion. However, research is needed to understand how mindfulness relates to compassion in real-world contexts. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain insufficiently understood, with self-related processes-particularly self-absorption and interdependent...
Anxiety is a psychological problem that is commonly faced by teenagers in Indonesia, which is often triggered by academic, social, and spiritual pressures. This research aims to develop a theoretical design that combines Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and muhasabah as a comprehensive approach in reducing anxiety in adolescents. Using the narrative review method, this study explores...
Mathematics, learned from an early age to adulthood, plays an important role in daily life, especially in academics. However, many students perceive mathematics as difficult and intimidating, which can lead to mathematics anxiety. This study aimed to examine the effect of the mindfulness approach on students’ mathematics anxiety. The participants consisted of two groups: an experimental group...
DiabetesJune 5, 2026Nazia Raja-Khan, Allen R Kunselman, Emily Wasserman et al.
Introduction and Objective: Adults with diabetes often experience high stress that can impair self-management and glycemia. We tested whether video-conference-based mindfulness meditation training (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction [MBSR]) improves HbA1c compared with an active Stress Management Education (SME) control in adults with uncontrolled diabetes. Methods: Randomized trial. Adults...
The autonomic nervous system, particularly the vagus nerve, plays a central role in stress resilience, emotion regulation, and overall health outcomes. Emerging evidence supports the integration of neuro-informed practices that enhance vagal tone and promote autonomic flexibility as effective, accessible interventions for stress and mental health-related conditions. This review examines the...
Dementia caregiving entails chronic, fluctuating stress with downstream risks to caregivers' mental health and quality of care. Mindfulness-based interventions can reduce caregiver stress; however, moment-to-moment fluctuations in stress may limit receptivity to practice at any given time. We developed a brief mindfulness just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) that aims to deliver support...
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the effects of an age-adapted mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) program on depression, anxiety, stress, mindfulness, and sleep quality among older adults. METHODS: A quasi-experimental pretest - posttest design with intervention and control groups was used. Sixty-two community-dwelling adults aged 60 years and older completed the study. The intervention...
Abstract This quasi-experimental study investigated the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and virtual reality-based worry exposure therapy (VR-WET) on cognitive avoidance and emotional capital in adolescents with social anxiety. In Ahvaz, Iran, 60 adolescents aged 12–18 years were randomly assigned to MBCT (n = 20), VR-WET (n = 20), or a no-treatment control group (n =...
Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) not only affects a person's social communication and behaviors, but also has an impact on their parents, who encounter different challenges during caregiving. Interventions developed for parents of children with ASD often focus on improving child outcomes and seldom consider the well-being of parents and families. Interventions leveraging...
Background: Burnout syndrome has become endemic to healthcare professions and is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a diminished sense of accomplishment. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced additional burdens to pre-existing stressors and has left the global healthcare workforce, including those in India, with an ongoing psychological crisis. Objective: The aim of this...
FigshareJune 4, 2026Chan-Woo Yeom, Onyoo Kim, Jeong-A. Yu et al.
preprint
spinal cord injury (SCI) reduces quality of life and causes chronic inflammation. Mindfulness-based interventions may improve these symptoms. However, few studies have examined the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions in individuals with SCI. This study evaluated a tailored Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) program. We conducted a non-randomized controlled trial at a national...
spinal cord injury (SCI) reduces quality of life and causes chronic inflammation. Mindfulness-based interventions may improve these symptoms. However, few studies have examined the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions in individuals with SCI. This study evaluated a tailored Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) program. We conducted a non-randomized controlled trial at a national...
Background: Mindfulness research has drawn extensively on the construct's long textual record for conceptual definitions but rarely treated that record as a source of empirical evidence. As a result, contemporary work captures cross-sectional variation across present-day populations without addressing the longer historical trajectories that produced it, leaving open questions about how cultural...
Healthcare undergraduate students often face high cognitive and emotional stress, negatively affecting their working memory and well-being. Mindfulness-based practices, such as sitting meditation and body scan, are proposed to enhance cognitive function and reduce stress in this population. This study compared the effects of brief sitting meditation and body scan on working memory, mindfulness,...
Meditation training can influence various self-related traits, such as self-judgment (SJ), self-kindness (SK), rumination (RUM) and reflection (REF), but little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms. This study aimed to elucidate the neural correlates of changes in traits of SJ, SK, RUM, and REF in response to mindfulness meditation training. Secondary data analyses were conducted on...
Introduction: Meditation offers a tractable model for probing altered states of consciousness, yet consistent physiological markers remain elusive. This study characterized within-subject autonomic and respiratory modulation across pre-meditation, during-meditation, and post-meditation states in trained Rajyoga practitioners using multiscale heart rate variability (HRV) metrics and...
Abstrak: Penguatan pendidikan inklusif memerlukan dukungan sosial-emosional pendidik, khususnya guru pendamping khusus (GPK), karena GPK menghadapi beban kerja dan tekanan emosional yang tinggi dalam mendampingi siswa berkebutuhan khusus. Kegiatan pengabdian ini bertujuan meningkatkan pengetahuan kecerdasan emosi dan pengelolaan emosi GPK melalui pelatihan mindfulness. Metode yang digunakan...