Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
September 10, 2020
Julieta Galante, Jan Stochl, Géraldine Dufour et al.
69 citations
BACKGROUND: There is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled trial hypothesising that providing mindfulness courses to university students would promote their resilience to stress up to a year later. Here we present 1-year follow-up outcomes. METHODS:...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
September 9, 2020
Xiyuan Jiang, Emily Lopez, James Stieger et al.
2 citations
preprint
Sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) provide an alternative pathway for users to perform motor control using motor imagery (MI). Despite the non-invasiveness, ease of use and low cost, this kind of BCI has limitation due to long training times and BCI inefficiency— where a subpopulation cannot generate decodable EEG signals to perform the control task. Meditation is...
Pain Medicine
September 8, 2020
Carrie E Brintz, Isabel Roth, Keturah R Faurot et al.
OBJECTIVE The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program is effective at improving chronic pain outcomes, but the time demand hinders participation. This preliminary study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and potential effects of providing an abbreviated mindfulness program for patients with chronic pain. DESIGN A single-arm, mixed-methods, pre-post intervention study. SETTING An...
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
September 8, 2020
D. Khalsa
This book is a good presentation of certain aspects of the science of meditation. However, it is frankly misnamed. It should be The Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation or Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as that is what is primarily covered. Mindfulness is not synonymous with meditation. There are many other forms of well-researched meditation techniques including Benson’s...
Current Psychology
September 8, 2020
Esther N. Moszeik, Timo von Oertzen, K.-H. Renner
Previous studies have shown that meditation-based interventions can have a significant impact on stress and well-being in various populations. To further extend these findings, an 11-min Yoga Nidra meditation that may especially be integrated in a busy daily schedule by people who can only afford short time for breaks was adapted and analyzed in an experimental online study design. The effects...
Tourism Management
September 3, 2020
Yao-Chin Wang, Po-Ju Chen, Huiming Shi et al.
This study seeks to contribute knowledge of the Zen retreat experience unique to Buddhist tourism. The research setting is the Zen retreats found at the Donghua Zen Temple in China. This study examined feedback obtained from 520 tourists who stayed at Zen retreats. Zen retreat organizer insights were obtained through online discussions. This study identified four motivations for, and three...
Nurse Media: Journal of Nursing
September 2, 2020
Halimah Wenny Yulina Astuti, Murti Agustin, Sri Padma Sari et al.
Background: Hope has an essential role in the recovery journey for people with schizophrenia. Current studies showed that people with schizophrenia reported having low hope. There is growing evidence that mindfulness has favorable effects on mental health in populations with chronic illness, including people with schizophrenia. However, the studies evaluating effects of mindfulness on hope and...
Journal of osteopathic medicine
September 1, 2020
Cynthia Marske, Samantha Shah, Aaron Chavira et al.
Abstract: Context: Chronic pain (CP) is a common and serious medical condition, with an estimated 100 million people affected in the United States. In the 1990s, opioids were increasingly prescribed to manage chronic pain, and this practice contributed to the opioid epidemic of the 21st century. To combat this epidemic, multidisciplinary approaches to chronic pain management are being...
Medical Care
September 2020
Erica Eaton, Hannah R Swearingen, Amin Zand Vakili et al.
Chronic pain and associated symptoms are debilitating for veterans. Medical costs of treatments are high and current treatment options, most notably with opioid medications, have been associated with significant risk. Mindfulness-based interventions appear promising for chronic pain, but require additional testing in veteran care settings. This project was designed to test the feasibility of...
International Journal of Yoga
September 1, 2020
Gunjan Y. Trivedi, Vidhi Patel, M. H. Shah et al.
Aim: The aim of this study was to understand the impact of an active meditation protocol on heart rate variability (HRV) and mood in women as compared to breath-focused silence meditation. Materials and Methods: Women experienced two different practices of 20 min each: (a) control group: silence meditation focusing on breath and (b) experiment group: active meditation that included four...