Journal of Psychosomatic Research
August 2, 2021
Tatjana Ewais, Jake Begun, Maura Kenny et al.
BACKGROUND Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a promising adjunctive treatment for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and comorbid depression. OBJECTIVES This pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) aimed to evaluate feasibility and efficacy of an adapted MBCT program for AYA, aged 16-29, with IBD. METHODS Sixty-four AYAs were randomly allocated...
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR HUMANITY SCIENCE AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE
August 1, 2021
Mahendra Shashikant Bhandare, Ghansham K. Dhokrat
The purpose of this study was to know the Effect of Yoga Meditation on Body Image of visually Impaired Children. For this research researcher has select 40 boys (n= 40) aging 13 to 15 years from Pragati Andha Vidyalaya, Badlapur, Dist. – Thane, Maharashtra. Researcher has used the non-equivalent group design, Group A, (Yoga Meditation group n = 20) treated as experimental group and Group B...
August 1, 2021
Citlali E. Molina
The demands on teachers have been further amplified both personal and professional in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of stress teachers face is unsustainable. Stress can have negative outcomes for the teacher student relationship. Increasing teachers' social-emotional competence can lead to a more supportive classroom environment and improved teacher and student outcomes....
The Gerontologist
August 1, 2021
Patrick Pui Kin Kor, Justina Y W Liu, Wai Tong Chien
Background and objectives: Family caregivers of people with dementia (PWD) experience high levels of stress resulting from caregiving. This study aimed to investigate the effects of a modified of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for dementia caregiving. Research design and methods: 113 family caregivers of PWD were randomized to either the intervention group, receiving the 7-session...
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
August 2021
Kevin Kim-Jun Teh, Yi-Kang Ng, Kinjal Doshi et al.
Patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) often have concomitant anxiety and depression. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) combines the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. It is a group-based therapy and has been shown to be efficacious in functional gastrointestinal disorders. There are no randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating MBCT in FD. We aimed to...
Rehabilitation psychology
August 2021
Brittany K Cattanach, Beverly E Thorn, Dawn M Ehde et al.
This study reports a qualitative analysis of patient experiences following cognitive therapy (CT), mindfulness meditation (MM), or mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for chronic low back pain (CLBP). It aimed to investigate the procedural elements reported by participants as important across these approaches, as well as the role of treatment-related change processes and common factors....
Journal of Clinical Medicine
August 1, 2021
E. M. Pardos-Gascón, Lucas Narambuena, César Leal-Costa et al.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the differential efficacy between Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). A quasi-experimental design of repeated measures before and after the test (n = 57) was used with a non-equivalent control group from a previous cohort treated with CBT (n = 105). The t-test revealed significant differences in subjective...
Mindfulness
August 1, 2021
Craig Hassed
Abstract Objectives Mindfulness is now widely used therapeutically in health settings, but for a range of reasons, it is not commonly integrated into the education of health professionals. This article aims to share practical insights and lessons learned from teaching mindfulness as core curriculum to the whole cohorts of medical students at Monash University. Methods This reflective article...
Brain and Behavior
August 1, 2021
Noriki Yamaya, Kenji Tsuchiya, Ibuki Takizawa et al.
Abstract Introduction Previous studies have revealed that one‐session focused attention meditation (FAM) can improve top‐down attention control, which is one of the factors of working memory capacity (WMC). In addition, FAM shares various neural substrates, including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), with WMC. Thus, we hypothesized that one‐session FAM would improve WMC by activating...
Anxiety, Stress, and Coping
July 31, 2021
Olga Vorontsova-Wenger, Paolo Ghisletta, Valentin Ababkov et al.
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a short mindfulness intervention on anxiety, stress and depression symptoms, as well as on inhibition of dominant responses and academic performance among university students. Fifty volunteers (M(age) = 23.8; SD = 5.3) with high levels of depression, anxiety or stress were randomly allocated to a mindfulness practice group or an active control...