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 ResearchMay 2, 2024Haydee 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
PhysiologyMay 1, 2024Julianna Cruz, Matias Zanuzzi, Jinhee Jeong et al.
Introduction: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk in part due to endothelial dysfunction. Studies have suggested that mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) may have beneficial physiologic effects on cardiovascular disease risk; however, the potential beneficial effects of MBSR on endothelial function in CKD are unknown. We tested the...
PhysiologyMay 1, 2024Jinhee Jeong, Matias Zanuzzi, Dana DaCosta et al.
Intro: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by chronic overactivation of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) that leads to increased blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week mindfulness meditation training program that has previously been shown to reduce blood pressure and improve autonomic balance in healthy and some...
Identifying barriers to compliance with mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) during the perioperative period is paramount to the design and implementation of non-pharmacologic, opiate-sparing pain regimens. We prospectively investigated the acceptability and adherence patterns of an app-based MBI amongst surgical patients with chronic pain. Patients were provided a subscription code to a...
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has been documented to be effective in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, the neurobiological basis of MBCT remains largely elusive, which makes it clinically challenging to predict which patients are more likely to respond poorly. Hence, identifying biomarkers for predicting treatment outcomes holds both scientific and clinical...