Mindfulness
May 17, 2021
Marian González-García, Jorge Crespo Álvarez, E. Pérez et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a global mental health challenge that has disrupted the lives of millions of people, with a considerable effect on university students. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of a brief online Mindfulness and Compassion-based Intervention to promote mental health among first year university students during COVID-19 home confinement. Participants...
Journal of Holistic Nursing
May 17, 2021
Alyssa Green, Elizabeth Kinchen
Background: Occupational burnout related to stress in the workplace is experienced by nurses who are regularly confronted with trauma, suffering, and high workloads. Burnout can negatively impact patient care and have detrimental effects on nurses’ physical and mental health. Mindfulness-based stress reduction programs have been researched as a potential holistic intervention for reducing...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
May 12, 2021
Liguo He, Wei Han, Zhan Shi
This study examines the impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) vs. wait list (WL) on the self-reference effect involving negative adjectives in individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD). Eighty-five participants with SAD were randomly assigned to 12 weeks of MBSR or WL and completed an incidental SRE task that assessed treatment-related negative self-representations....
Journal of Educational and Social Research
May 10, 2021
Bassam Hilal ALHarbi, Fatin Abdulrahman Mhedat, Ziad M. Alkhazaleh
5 citations
The study aimed to identify the level of mindfulness, psychological resilience, depression, and its correlation to psychological resilience and depression of distinguished students. To achieve objectives of the study, Toronto scale for mindfulness, scale of psychological resilience, and Beck depression list were used. Findings of the study unveiled that the level of mindfulness and...
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
May 10, 2021
Zonghua Wang, Xiaoxiao Xu, Shuang Liu et al.
Objective Mindfulness-based interventions have been widely demonstrated to be effective in reducing stress, alleviating mood disorders, and improving quality of life; however, the underlying mechanisms remained to be fully understood. Along with the advanced research in the microbiota-gut-brain axis, this study aimed to explore the impact of gut microbiota on the effectiveness and...
PsyArXiv
May 8, 2021
Joy Xu, Helen Jo, Leena Noorbhai et al.
preprint
BACKGROUNDWith the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, students have experienced drastic changes in their academic and social lives with ensuing consequences towards their physical and mental well-being. The purpose of this systematic review is to identify virtual mindfulness-based interventions for the well-being of young adults aged 15 to 40 years in developed countries and examine the efficacy...
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
May 8, 2021
Nina A Cooperman, Adam W. Hanley, Anna Kline et al.
Background: Chronic pain is highly prevalent among people in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) for opioid use disorder and is known to be an important contributor to treatment discontinuation and opioid relapse. Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) is one of the few interventions developed and tested as an integrated treatment to simultaneously address both pain and illicit...
Mindfulness
May 8, 2021
M. G. Ramesh Babu, Rajagopal Kadavigere, K Prakashini et al.
5 citations
Abstract Objectives Many studies on various meditation types have reported regional gray matter volume changes using voxel-based morphometric analysis of structural MRI, but there are no studies done on structural MRI of Rajyoga meditators. The objective of the present study is to analyze and compare gray matter volume changes of brain regions in meditators and non-meditators and further study...
May 6, 2021
Amanda C M Li, Keith KL Wong, Floria H. N. Chio et al.
BACKGROUND Although text messaging has the potential to be the core intervention modality, it is often used as an adjunct only. To improve health and alleviate the distress related to insomnia, pain, and dysregulated eating of people living in urban areas, text messaging–based mindfulness-based interventions were designed and evaluated in 3 randomized controlled trials. OBJECTIVE This study...
May 6, 2021
Claudia Daudén Roquet, Corina Sas
55 citations
Meditation is a mind-body practice with considerable wellbeing benefits that can take different forms. Novices usually start with focused attention meditation that supports regulation of attention towards an inward focus or internal bodily sensations and away from external stimuli or distractors. Most meditation technologies employ metaphorical mappings of meditative states to visual or...