American heart journal
August 2018
Tanya M Spruill, Harmony R Reynolds, Victoria Vaughan Dickson et al.
Elevated stress is associated with adverse cardiovascular disease outcomes and accounts in part for the poorer recovery experienced by women compared with men after myocardial infarction (MI). Psychosocial interventions improve outcomes overall but are less effective for women than for men with MI, suggesting the need for different approaches. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an...
Journal of Affective Disorders
August 1, 2018
David Cooper, Keong Yap, Luisa Batalha
An inability to identify or describe internal emotional experience has been linked to a range of affective disorders. Despite burgeoning research on mindfulness-based interventions and their possible effects on emotion regulation, the effects of such interventions on emotional clarity is unclear. This review examines the evidence for the effect of mindfulness-based interventions on...
Personality and mental health
August 2018
Miquel Tortella-Feliu, Joaquim Soler, Leonard Burns et al.
As dimensions of effortful control (EC), activation control, attentional control, and inhibitory control could mediate the relationship between mindfulness meditation practice and the facets of mindfulness (i.e., observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging and non-reacting to inner experience). In this study, we tested whether participant status: meditators (n = 330), healthy...
Journal of Instructional Research
August 1, 2018
Kathy McCann, Mendi Davis
7 citations
The purpose of this quasiexperimental quantitative research study was to examine the extent to which students enrolled in a doctoral program at a Christian university located in the southwestern United consisted of 19 doctoral students (n = 19) from a Christian university.Participants completed the Selfgroups were compared.One group was given interventions in weeks 2 and 7.The second group was...
Jorjani Biomedicine Journal
August 1, 2018
Rasoul Heshmati
1 citation
Background and objectives: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is associated with negative emotions of anger and stress, which are one of the nonclinical risk factors of the disease.Therefore, evaluation of the effective therapeutic models alleviating the patients' negative emotions is of paramount importance.This study aimed to examine the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on anger...
Terapia psicológica
August 1, 2018
Sheila Pintado
7 citations
treatment of compassion fatigue in health professionals
Evidence-Based Mental Health
August 2018
Junhua Zhang, Amparo Díaz-Román, Samuele Cortese
The efficacy of meditation-based therapies for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across the lifespan remains uncertain. To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) assessing the efficacy of meditation-based therapies for ADHD core symptoms and associated neuropsychological dysfunctions in children/adolescents or adults with ADHD. We...
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
August 2018
Nicole Snaith, Tim Schultz, Michael Proeve et al.
The aim of the study was to examine the demographic and practice characteristics of current yoga participants and assess their levels of mindfulness, self-compassion, stress, anxiety, depression and wellbeing and implications for designing a yoga intervention. A web-based survey was administered to South Australian yoga teachers and students from September 2014 to February 2015. Results showed...
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
August 2018
Devvarta Kumar, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian
Psychological interventions have proven efficacy in treating psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. However, the efficacy of these interventions has primarily been evaluated in the context of their use as an adjunct to antipsychotics or on patients who do not respond to adequate trials of antipsychotics. There is paucity of research about the effectiveness of psychological...
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing
August 1, 2018
Jinsun Yong, Junyang Park, Juhu Kim et al.
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of the Holy Name Meditation on cancer patients’ spiritual well-being, anxiety, depression, and pain. Twenty-eight patients were enrolled in the control group, and 18 patients were selected for the experimental group. Only the patients in the experimental group completed 5 weeks of the Holy Name Meditation Program. All participants were surveyed...