Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
December 1, 2022
Michael Datko, Jacqueline Lutz, Richa Gawande et al.
Interoceptive dysfunction is often present in anxiety and depression. We investigated the effects of an 8-week intervention, Mindfulness Training for Primary Care (MTPC), on brain mechanisms of interoceptive attention among patients with anxiety and/or depression. We hypothesized that fMRI brain response to interoception in the insula, a region known for interoceptive processing, would increase...
Children
November 30, 2022
Rachel L Moline, Kaytlin L Constantin, Christine T Chambers et al.
Routine needle procedures can be distressing for parents and children. Mindfulness interventions may be helpful for parents and children but have not been examined for pediatric needle procedures despite showing benefits in the context of pediatric chronic pain and in lab-based pain tasks. This preregistered (NCT03941717) two-arm, parallel-group randomized controlled trial examined the effects...
REVISTA LATINO-AMERICANA DE PSICOLOGIA CORPORAL
November 30, 2022
Cynthia Vieira Sanches Sampaio, Ana Marice Teixeira Ladeia
Resumo: Chronic stress may change eating behavior and thus play a role in the development of obesity. Recent research targeting obesity prevention has evaluated meditation as a resource for regulating emotion. In this literature review, 20 studies conducted in the last decade, concerning the topics of overweight and obese population that used different types of meditation were examined. These...
Frontiers in Psychology
November 30, 2022
Eve Ekman, Christopher J. Koenig, Jennifer Daubenmier et al.
5 citations
Contemplative science has made great strides in the empirical investigation of meditation practices, such as how mindfulness, compassion, and mantra practices impact health and well-being. However, meditation practices from the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition that use mental imagery to transform distressing beliefs and emotions have been little explored. We examined the “Feeding Your Demons”...
Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change
November 30, 2022
Rachel Lilley, Mark Whitehead, Gerald Midgley
19 citations
This paper explores the impacts of the Mindfulness-Based Behavioural Insights and Decision-Making (MBBI) programme. Combining mindfulness with behavioural insights instruction, the authors have developed the MBBI programme through a series of iterative trials over the last ten years. In addition to fusing mindfulness and behavioural insights, this programme also draws on the theories of...
Scientific Reports
November 30, 2022
Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo, Angelia Sia, Anna Fogel et al.
95 citations
There is an established consensus among researchers that contact with nature improves mental health, wellbeing, and quality of life in urbanised environments. Studies tend to examine the health impacts of nature without identifying specific physical and spatial landscape features that could guide health-promoting design of urban green spaces. A growing body of evidence suggests that landscape...
Jurnal Keperawatan Silampari
November 29, 2022
Elina Situmorang, Neti Juniarti, Agus Riyanto et al.
1 citation
This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation with deep focus music on blood pressure and stress in elderly hypertensive patients at the Sukabumi Nursing Home. This research is a quasi-experimental study with a non-equivalent control group with a pretest and posttest. The results showed that all sexes were female, with 17 people (100%) in the control and intervention...
Research Square
November 29, 2022
Junliang Zhang, Shuang Zheng, Zhongzheng Hu et al.
preprint
The study aims to explore the relationship among mindfulness, depression, meaning in life (MIL) and psychological resilience (PR), and verify whether MIL and PR have a chain mediating effect between mindfulness and depression .1034 college students in a province were investigated by using Adolescent Mindfulness Scale, Depression Scale, Meaning in Life Scale and Psychological Resilience Scale....
Medicine
November 25, 2022
Jiayu Xu, Manxue Mei, Haoxiang Sun et al.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is intimately linked to chronic stress. Meditation programs belong to mind-body therapies, which could benefit patients' disease management. Though some clinical trials have proved that meditation programs have the ability to improve level of blood glucose quality of life, body mass index and blood indexes related to metabolism in individuals with type 2 diabetes...
F1000Research
November 25, 2022
T. Honda
Background: Mindfulness meditation for chronic pain is popular globally, but evidence of its efficacy is limited. Moreover, there are no established methods on the objective evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions for chronic pain. In this study, a chronic low back pain patient was treated with traditional Japanese Buddhism meditation-integrated cognitive behavioral therapy and the...