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The validity of Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale Thai version

Journal of Mental Health of Thailand - วารสารสุขภาพจิต แห่งประเทศไทย 2011 Chatchawan Silpakit, Orawan Silpakit, Pattaraphon Wisajun 12 citations

Objective To test the psychological features of the Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale Thai version (PHLMS_TH).Materials and methods PHLMS is a tool designed for assessing mindfulness. It consists of two subscales, awareness and acceptance, with Likert’s type rating 1-5 (1=never, 5=very often). Thetest-retest reliability was tested in 30 subjects by Pearson’s correlation. The internal consistency...

Comparative effects of mindfulness and skills-based parent training programs

Rutgers University Community Repository 2011 Suzannah Iadarola 1 citation

Parents of children with autism are documented to report high levels of stress compared to parents of typically developing children, children with chronic illnesses, and children with other developmental disorders. Previous research has indicated both parent-focused and child-focused parent training programs as effective in alleviating parental stress and enhancing meaningful parent-child...

Mindfulness-Action Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for concurrent Binge Eating Disorder and Substance Use Disorders.

Eating Disorders 2011 Christine M Courbasson, Yasunori Nishikawa, Leah B Shapira

Individuals with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) often evidence comorbid Substance Use Disorders (SUD), resulting in poor outcome. This study is the first to examine treatment outcome for this concurrent disordered population. In this pilot study, 38 individuals diagnosed with BED and SUD participated in a 16-week group Mindfulness-Action Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MACBT). Participants...

DOI: 10.1080/10640266.2011.533603 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Humans Substance-related disorders Treatment outcome Pilot projects +7

Cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to stressful tasks following a mindfulness-analog in college students with a family history of hypertension

2011 Christoffer A. Grant

Ninety-seven undergraduate students with a family history of hypertension participated in a study that evaluated the effects of a brief mindfulness-induction on cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to two stressors. Participants were randomized to either a mindfulness-induction or control condition and were then exposed to the cold pressor task (CPT) followed by the mirror-tracing task (MT)....

Anthropometric and behavioral measures related to mindfulness in college students.

Journal of American College Health 2011 Sarah Grinnell, Geoffrey Greene, Kathleen Melanson et al.

Objective: To determine whether mindfulness is associated with physical and behavioral measures in first semester college students. Participants: Male and female first year college students (n = 75) from the University of Rhode Island. Methods: Height, weight, waist circumference (WC), and blood pressure were assessed and online questionnaires were completed. Independent t tests and Pearson...

DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2011.555932 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Humans Chronic disease Anthropometry Body mass index +13

Stress management and mind-body medicine: focusing on relaxation and meditation

Journal of Korean Medical Association 2011 Yune Sik Kang 6 citations

S tress management is important and various stress management methods are required in the area of clinical preventive services.Although defining stress is somewhat complicated, stress can usually be divided into two concepts, stressors and the stress reaction.Stressors are stimuli that arouse the stress reaction.Examples are disasters, life events requiring changes, and everyday hassles.The...

Parent Mindfulness and Child Outcome: The Roles of Parent Depressive Symptoms and Parenting.

Mindfulness 2011 Justin Parent, Emily Garai, Rex Forehand et al.

The purpose of this study was to examine pathways in a model which proposed associations among parent mindfulness, parent depressive symptoms, two types of parenting, and child problem behavior. Participants' data were from the baseline assessment of a NIMH-sponsored Family-Group Cognitive-Behavioral intervention program (FGCB) for the prevention of child and adolescent depression (Compas et...

The effects of school-based program on mindfulness practice with lovingkindness

2011 Matthew Chu Ho-tat

A growing body of research has supported the benefits of mindfulness practice. However, not many studies investigated its effects on positive human functioning. In addition, most studies treated mindfulness as skills and techniques for achieving bare awareness, without addressing its philosophical underpinnings. In the Buddhist tradition, mindfulness is paying close attention to one’s immediate...