Medicine
April 3, 2026
Xiaoqian Liu, Hui Chen, Yuna Cheng et al.
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients undergoing surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy often experience debilitating physical and psychological symptoms, including cancer-related fatigue, anxiety, and depression. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has emerged as a complementary intervention to alleviate these burdens and enhance quality of life, but evidence in NSCLC populations...
Kavya Setu
April 3, 2026
Sushant Jha, Ms. Manisha Chouhan, Dr. Samir Thakur
The contemporary epoch, characterized by accelerated socio-economic transitions and cognitive overload, has precipitated a substantial escalation in psychological distress and attentional fragmentation among individuals. Within this paradigm, meditation has emerged as a potent psycho physiological intervention facilitating enhanced psychological well-being, sustained attentional focus, and...
International Journal of Research & Technology
April 3, 2026
Sushant Jha, Ms. Manisha Chouhan, Dr. Samir Thakur
Stress, overthinking and anxiety is one of the main problems taking the toll on youth in today society. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of yoga and meditation as non-pharmacological interventions on psychological distress among students. It got the quantitative research design done on 50 student of Government DSV Sanskrit College, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University,...
ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
April 3, 2026
Surendra P. Singh, Lohans Kumar Kalyani, Manju Singh et al.
There has been increasing research on the application of yoga and meditation to the composition of performing arts as one of the comprehensive approaches to creativity, stage performance, and well-being of the performers. Exposing the works of art to intense physical exercises, emotional outbursts, and excessive psychological stress, tend to affect the performance, as well as their health in...
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
April 2, 2026
Shikha Singh, Jalaj Saxena, Dolly Rastogi et al.
Background: Stressful conditions such as excessive workload, physical and mental trauma enhance sympathetic nervous system activity which results in the secretion of cortisol hormone, which in turn can raise blood pressure, triglycerides (TG), blood sugar, and cholesterol, all posing jeopardy for cardiovascular diseases. Aims and Objectives: To evaluate the effect of short-term breathing...
npj Mental Health Research
April 2, 2026
Peng Tan, Yuqi Wu, Xinrong Chen et al.
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Depressive disorders are characterized by persistent negative affect, rumination, and impaired emotion regulation, contributing substantially to global disease burden. As recurrent rumination and negative attentional biases are central cognitive mechanisms of depression, interventions targeting these processes have gained increasing attention. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) effectively...
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
April 2, 2026
Reshu Gupta, Rohan Arora, Raman Grover
Background: Meditation has widely been used to combat stress and its effects, yet the universality of its effectiveness and duration remains unclear. Aim and Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate differences in its effectiveness among individuals with different baseline stress levels and recommend duration of practice to produce constructive outcomes. Materials and Methods: A total of 30...
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
April 2, 2026
Mousumi Chakrabarty, Priya Gajendra Shinde
Background: Meditation is a practice that has been shown to improve calmness, enhance attention, and produce a focused mind. Mindfulness is the quality of being fully engaged with whatever we are doing, being free from distraction. Students nowadays are stressed due to increasing competition relating to their academic performance and career building which, in turn, affects their performance and...
Clinical Journal of Pain
April 1, 2026
Michelle A. Clementi, Michelle Harmon, Emily F. Law et al.
Objectives: Adolescents with chronic migraine face increased risk for comorbid anxiety and depression that, can hinder migraine self-management and coping. Mindfulness-based interventions may reduce anxiety/depression to improve migraine outcomes, yet require tailoring to increase acceptability and engagement among this distinct population. The current study used qualitative methods to explore...
Rooyesh Psychological Journal
April 1, 2026
Pardis Habibzadeh Miandoab, Reza Kazemi, Azar Kiamarsi
The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness group therapy on controlling emotions and body image in female students with bulimia nervosa. The research method was a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a three-month follow-up period. The statistical population of this study included female students with bulimia nervosa at...
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
April 1, 2026
Gopika Satish, Navin Kumar
ABSTRACT Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences are well-known risk factors that impair adult social functioning. Internal psychological strengths, such as mindfulness and psychological capital (PsyCap), may buffer these impacts among adult women in Kerala, India. However, studies exploring the role of these resources remain scarce and underexplored. Objective: The present study explored the...
Journal of Nursing Education
April 1, 2026
Nurcan Düzgün, Feride Ercan
Background: Critical thinking and self-confidence are important concepts for nursing students. This study aimed to investigate the effects of mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) on the critical thinking dispositions and self-confidence levels of nursing students. Method: A randomized controlled trial was conducted using a parallel-group design with pretest and posttest measurements. A total of...
Electronic Journal of Research in Education Psychology
April 1, 2026
Tarik Mohamed
Introduction. Mindfulness has been linked to emotional regulation and well-being, yet its role in emotional creativity and academic achievement remains insufficiently understood. Emotional creativity involves the ability to experience, express, and regulate emotions in novel, effective, and authentic ways, which may be particularly important for university students facing academic and emotional...
Explore
April 1, 2026
Timothy Chen, Varsha Ganesh, Bruriah Horowitz et al.
BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to explore ways in which interpersonal mindfulness and other foundations of healing are manifested during the TCM encounter and how they may affect the practitioner-patient relationship and support health equity and quality of life. METHODS US-based TCM practitioners with the following licenses-L.Ac., O.M., C.H.,-were recruited to participate in a 45-min...
Rooyesh Psychological Journal
April 1, 2026
M. Mohammadpour, S. Ebrahimi
The present study aimed to Effectiveness of Group Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Exposure on Neuroticism and Mental Pain of Patients Suffering from Sleep Apnea. The present study was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group with a three-month follow-up period. The Population of this study was the patients with obstructive sleep apnea who were referred...
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
April 1, 2026
Ahmad Suleman, Yazeed Alkhrijah, Misha Urooj Khan et al.
Auditory stimuli strongly shape emotional and physiological states, making them central to affective computing and mental health technologies.We present the study of three auditory conditions, spiritual meditation (SM), music (M), and natural silence (NS), using acoustic time-series signals. To support this, we introduce the Spiritual, Music, Silence Acoustic Time Series (SMSAT) dataset, a...
Journal of Medicine and Physical Education
April 1, 2026
Xv Chu
The present study has two overarching research aims: first, to systematically examine the connection between dispositional mindfulness and anxiety among undergraduate students; second, to empirically test the mediating roles of rumination and sleep quality within this specific bivariate association, the present study recruited 767 undergraduate students (337 males, 430 females). The MAAS,...
AANA journal
April 1, 2026
Allan Lovern, M. Watson, A. Hollis et al.
Resident registered nurse anesthetists (RRNAs) face high levels of depression, anxiety, and stress (DAS) due to the academic, clinical, and financial demands of graduate anesthesia education. Nature-based mindfulness, which integrates nature exposure with mindfulness practices, has shown promise in reducing psychological distress but remains underexplored among RRNAs. This single-arm pilot,...
Midwifery
April 1, 2026
Wan-Lin Pan, Cherng-Chia Yang, Yi-Hui Chen et al.
PROBLEM Childbearing women frequently experience stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms during the perinatal period, which may affect both maternal and infant health. BACKGROUND Mindfulness-based interventions have shown benefits for maternal psychological well-being. With the growth of mobile health, online mindfulness programmes offer greater accessibility; however, few studies have...
Integrative Cancer Therapies
April 1, 2026
Virginie Prévost, T. Tran, Bénédicte Clarisse et al.
In recent years, mindfulness-based interventions have gained in popularity as a non-pharmacological intervention for improving well-being in oncology. Our project aims to address the benefit of shared meditation involving patients, medical staff ant third parties (neither patients, nor carers). The intervention programme was based on 12 weekly 2h sessions (including 2 half-day retreats),...