Journal of surgical education
February 2023
George Burnet, Carson Platnick, Priya Krishnan et al.
To quantify the prevalence of burnout in our surgical residency program and to assess the impact of a weekly wellness program for surgical residents through validated tools measuring mindfulness, self-compassion, flourishing, and burnout. Our hypothesis was that participants with more frequent attendance would: (1) be more mindful and self-compassionate and (2) experience less burnout and more...
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment
February 2023
Onawa LaBelle, Maurissa Hastings, Noel Vest et al.
Recovery Dharma (RD) is a Buddhist-based peer support program for the treatment of addiction that incorporates mindfulness and meditation into meetings, program literature, and the recovery process, creating the opportunity to study these variables in a peer-support program context. Mindfulness and meditation are beneficial for people in recovery, yet we know little about their relationship to...
International Journal of Psychophysiology
February 2023
Veena Kumari, Elena Antonova, S Mahmood et al.
There is growing evidence of beneficial effects of mindfulness developed through engaging in mindfulness training/practices on sensory and cognitive processing, emotion regulation and mental health. Mindfulness has also been conceptualised as a dispositional 'trait', i.e. the naturally-occurring ability of meditation-naïve individuals to display, in varying degree, a non-judgmental non-reactive...
Revue Médicale Suisse
February 1, 2023
Vasileios Chytas, Paolo Cordera, Guido Bondolfi
Chronic pain requires an integrative approach. The prescription of opioids is increasing in Europe, including Switzerland, for the -treatment of chronic pain, despite their modest effectiveness. Mindfulness-based interventions have demonstrated their effectiveness in the management of chronic pain. The MORE program (Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement) is an integrative therapy that uses...
Journal of Daoist Studies
February 1, 2023
Jin-Young Lim
Abstract:This paper examines the intersections between Taijiquan 太極拳, ancient Chinese philosophy, and holistic education. It introduces the history, philosophy and practice of Taijiquan through the lens of traditional Yang Family Taijiquan, and suggests that a Taiji-Daoist pedagogy can help fulfill the goal of holistic education in fostering six different kinds of connections. With proper...
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
February 1, 2023
Paul Cardle, Saravana Kumar, M. Leach et al.
Background Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMSP) disorders are a leading cause of disability globally, affecting up to one in three people. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) have become a popular treatment for CMSP. The aim of this umbrella review was to synthesise the best available research evidence for the effectiveness of MBI for adults with CMSP. Methods Eight databases were searched...
Mind, Brain, and Education
February 1, 2023
John E. Lothes, Sara Matney, Zayne Naseer et al.
AbstractResearch shows that mindfulness interventions for test anxiety in a college student population are beneficial (Lothes, Matney, & Naseer, 2022). This study assessed the effects of online mindfulness practices over a 5‐week period on anxiety and test anxiety in college students. Participants included 20 students that were randomly assigned to either a sitting meditation or a wait list...
Biological Psychiatry
February 1, 2023
Anne Maj van der Velden, Jacqueline Scholl, Else-Marie Elmholdt et al.
Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and its prevalence is on the rise. One of the most debilitating aspects of depression is the dominance and persistence of depressive rumination, a state of mind that is linked to onset and recurrence of depression. Mindfulness meditation trains adaptive attention regulation and present-moment embodied awareness, skills that may be...
Mindfulness
February 1, 2023
Madhav Goyal, Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite, Sharat Jain et al.
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Preventing migraine headaches and improving the quality of life for patients with migraine remains a challenge. We hypothesized intensive meditation training would reduce the disease burden of migraine. An unblinded trial was analyzed as a single cohort exposed to a silent 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat that included 100 hr of sitting meditation. Participants with chronic or episodic...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
January 31, 2023
Wei Yan, Zhongxin Jiang, Peng Zhang et al.
Vitality is important for subjective well-being and performance, which makes strategies for its enhancement an important research issue. While prior research showed that mindfulness practice and physical exercise are both effective at enhancing vitality, no study has compared their efficacy. This study aimed to address this issue. Seventy-one Chinese adults participated in the study and were...