This study aimed to investigate the effect of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on sexual satisfaction and relationship intimacy among couples in Southwest Nigeria. The study employed a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design, with participants randomly assigned to either the MBCT intervention group or a wait-list control group. The population of this study comprised married couples...
Background: School-based mindfulness education has been increasingly implemented to support children's socio-emotional development; however, the cognitive mechanisms underlying its effects on emotion regulation remain insufficiently clarified. This study examined whether mindfulness-based education improves children's emotion regulation and whether executive function mediates this association....
MindfulnessMarch 4, 2026Xiaolu Dai, Ana Karen G. Barajas, Anne‐Marie Burn et al.
Abstract Objectives Recent research suggests mindfulness as a promising approach to support children’s social-emotional well-being, but the meaning of mindfulness interventions to children’s well-being is rarely explored from the children’s perspective. Using Chinese migrant children as an example, this study explored vulnerable children’s experiences of a school-based mindfulness intervention....
Background: Socio-cognitive mindfulness is highly applicable in educational contexts and has demonstrated benefits for mindfulness, emotion regulation, and empathy; however, nursing research in this area remains limited, with most digital interventions focusing on meditation-based mindfulness. This study aimed to evaluate a mobile application-based socio-cognitive mindfulness program with...
Background: Accelerating global population aging underscores the need to identify multidimensional determinants of successful aging. This review synthesizes evidence on social, spiritual, and religious factors that shape well-being, and quality of life in later adulthood. Successful aging is conceptualized as adaptation to age-related challenges through internal and external resources. Emerging...
In the modern era, many individuals experience spiritual emptiness and mental health disorders due to the pressures of life and loss of meaning in life. S.N. Goenka's technique of Vipassana meditation is present as an alternative to spiritual practice that emphasizes the observation of bodily sensations without ritual and is non-sectarian, thus attracting the interest of lay practitioners from...
Methods and ProtocolsMarch 3, 2026Aglaia Zafeiroudi, Ioannis Tsartsapakis, Charilaos Kouthouris
Recreational dance offers significant psychological well-being potential. However, traditional instruction emphasizes technique while limiting attention to nervous system development and embodied meaning-making. Despite empirical support for polyvagal theory, motor learning science, somatic education, and phenomenology, their systematic integration into unified structures is not clearly...
Anxiety before a first-time screening colonoscopy is a commonly reported patient-level barrier to completing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. This pilot study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of "For peace of mind. Get Screened," a brief online mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) to reduce anxiety before a first-time screening colonoscopy. Participants (n =...
Abstract Previous correlational and experimental studies showed the importance of mindfulness and autonomous goal motivation for processes of goal attainment. The present study compared the role of two regulation techniques (mindfulness vs. breathing exercises) for goal progress in personal goals in a randomized waitlist control group design. Participants ( N = 197, M = 25.5 years, 18–72 years;...
Background: Depression in children is a concerning societal issue and can be associated with poor academic performance, school dropout, and poor overall quality of life. Additionally, child depression is often associated with parallel stress and depression in parents. Objective: This scenario highlights the urgent need for the development and implementation of accessible and scalable solutions...