JMIR Formative Research
May 6, 2024
Kaitlyn Delaney Chappell, Diana Meakins, Melanie Marsh-Joyal et al.
5 citations
Individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) experience cycles of aggressive physical symptoms including abdominal pain, diarrhea, and fatigue. These acute symptoms regress and return, and chronic symptoms and complications often linger. The nature of the disease can also cause individuals to experience psychological distress including symptoms of anxiety and depression; however, unlike...
Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association
May 3, 2024
Andrew Ledford, Celeste Raver Luning, Deirdre P Dixon et al.
Mindfulness and resilience are thought to be essential qualities of the military's special operations community. Both are tested daily in Special Operations Forces (SOF) assessment and selection efforts to prepare candidates to persist through grueling training and complex combat situations; but these qualities are rarely measured. While military leadership places value on the concepts of...
Journal of Psychology in Africa
May 3, 2024
Fang Li, Xu Tang, X. Ge et al.
We investigated the relationship between mindfulness and online trolling among adolescents. We also explored the mediating role of self-esteem and depression and the moderating role of dark personality traits in the relationship between mindfulness and online trolling. Chinese adolescents (n = 696; female = 47.1%, mean age = 14.315 ± 1.353 years) completed measures of mindfulness, self-esteem,...
PLoS One
May 2, 2024
OBJECTIVE: The aim is to examine whether the addition of Virtual Reality (VR) meditation training to a standard 8-week Mindfulness-Based Health Care Program (MBHC-VR) results in a significantly increased improvement in occupational, mental health, and psychological functioning versus MBHC-only in university students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A randomized controlled clinical trial with three arms...
Research Posters
May 2, 2024
Aneela Rampersad, Samantha Plasner
Healthcare students are under stress and can use different methods to cope with it. Mindfulness techniques such as guided meditation has been used as a way of helping these students reduce their stress levels. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether guided meditation has an effect on student doctors that translates into more positive interactions with patients. This study found...
Cancer Research
May 2, 2024
Haydee Verduzco-Aguirre, Maura Pompa Mansilla, Misael Salazar-Alejo et al.
Background Breast cancer (BC) diagnosis and treatment can lead to multiple symptoms with a negative impact on the quality of life of survivors. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) interventions have shown to improve anxiety, depression, and stress in patients with cancer across multiple settings. However, the effectiveness of an online MBSR program has not been studied. Methods This is an...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 2, 2024
Bruno Neri, A. Callara, Nicola Vanello et al.
The positive effects of meditation on human wellbeing are indisputable, ranging from emotion regulation improvement to stress reduction and present-moment awareness enhancement. Changes in brain activity regulate and support these phenomena. However, the heterogeneity of meditation practices and their cultural background, as well as their poor categorization limit the generalization of results...
Trials
May 2, 2024
Hailiang Zhang, Xiangrong Zhang, Xiaomei Jiang et al.
19 citations
To evaluate mindfulness-based intervention for hypertension with depression and/or anxiety. 10-week mindfulness-based intervention, including health education for hypertension, exclusively for the control group, was administered to the intervention group to assist sixty hypertension patients with depression/anxiety. Among them, the intervention group comprised 8 men and 22 women, with a mean...
The American Surgeon™
May 2024
R Lynae Roberts, Adam W. Hanley, Eric L Garland
Surgical procedures often improve health and function but can sometimes also result in iatrogenic effects, including chronic pain and opioid misuse. Due to the known risks of opioids and the physical, emotional, and financial suffering that often accompanies chronic pain, there has been a call for greater use of complementary non-pharmacological treatments like mindfulness-based interventions....
Journal of Advanced Sociology
May 1, 2024
Sheila Forrest
Purpose: The general objective of this study was to the effects of mindfulness training on stress reduction and well- being in the workplace. Methodology: The study adopted a desktop research methodology. Desk research refers to secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. Desk research is basically involved in collecting data from existing resources hence it is often...