Health Psychology Report
April 29, 2019
Sajjad Rezaei, Sedigheh Hassanzadeh
BackgroundAlthough the results obtained for mindfulness-based treatments are promising, there is limited information concerning the role of different dimensions of mindfulness in the undesirable outcomes related to chronic pain such as physical pain and catastrophizing, pain severity, kinesiophobia and disability. Therefore, the objective of this present research was to examine the relationship...
Mindfulness
April 29, 2019
Johannes Michalak, Catherine Crane, C. Germer et al.
ObjectivesMindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) like mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) teach mindfulness in a group-based format. Empirical research has shown that many therapists working in individual therapy integrate mindfulness practices (e.g., body scan, sitting meditation) into their treatments. However, research on this topic is in...
Pilot and Feasibility Studies
April 27, 2019
Christopher Nyi Nyi Bu, Elizabeth Cotzias, Maria Panagioti
Background: Mindfulness has been shown to reduce stress and burnout in medical students and healthcare professionals. This is a quality improvement study which assessed the feasibility of conducting a full-scale evaluation of a mindfulness intervention among UK foundation doctors to reduce stress and burnout. Methods: This is an uncontrolled before and after study taking place in a single...
College Teaching
April 25, 2019
Michael F. S. Baranski, Christopher A. Was
Abstract Mindfulness meditation involves focusing one's attention on the present moment in a non-judgmental way. Several recently published investigations have demonstrated that a brief session of mindfulness meditation, practiced before a higher-education course lecture, can improve performance on a quiz over lecture content given immediately following the lecture. It is less clear how...
Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
April 25, 2019
Harrison Blum, C. Rutt, Carol C Nash et al.
This study presents the impact of chaplain-provided mindfulness meditation (MM) groups on state-anxiety in adolescent inpatients on an acute psychiatric unit, an understudied topic that warrants further research given that anxiety is a demonstrated predictor of suicide attempts in adolescents and the elevated suicide risk of this population. A total of 53 adolescent patients, age 13–19,...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
April 24, 2019
J. Breedvelt, Yagmur Amanvermez, Mathias Harrer et al.
Background: Meditation, yoga, and mindfulness are popular interventions at universities and tertiary education institutes to improve mental health. However, the effects on depression, anxiety, and stress are unclear. This study assessed the effectiveness of meditation, yoga, and mindfulness on symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in tertiary education students. Methods: We searched...
Behavioural Neurology
April 21, 2019
Hélène Poissant, Adrianna Mendrek, Nadine Talbot et al.
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are becoming increasingly popular as treatments for physical and psychological problems. Recently, several studies have suggested that MBIs may also be effective in reducing symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Most studies have examined the effectiveness in children, but there are now a sufficient number of individual treatment...
Current Opinion in Psychology
April 18, 2019
Yi-Yuan Tang, R. Tang, Mary K Rothbart et al.
Both brain alpha and theta power have been examined in the mindfulness meditation literature and suggested as key biological signatures that potentially facilitate a successful meditative state. However, the exact role of how alpha and theta waves contribute to the initiation and maintenance of a meditative state remains elusive. In this perspective paper, we discuss the role of frontal midline...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
April 16, 2019
Robelyn A. Garcia
When compared to society at large, police officers have particularly stressful lifestyles, placing them at greater risk of a multitude of stress related diseases in addition to overall mortality and decreased life expectancy.1,3–5 “Developing a comprehensive list of every stressor potentially confronted by policing officers would be an impossible task”.1 The number of years of service in police...
Journal of Yoga and Physiotherapy
April 16, 2019
Jodan D. Garcia
Chronic pain is an increasingly common diagnosis in society affecting an estimated 25.3 million adults in 2012. Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as, “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage” [1] and chronic pain can be defined as pain that is present, “for at least...