Health Promotion Perspectives
July 7, 2018
Meghan K. Edwards, Paul D Loprinzi
Background: To examine the effects of an acute bout of aerobic exercise and meditation on mood state among young adults. Methods: Participants (N= 66, mean age = 21.3 years) were randomly assigned to walk,meditate, or sit (control) for 10 minutes. Participants’ mood state was monitored before and after the intervention using the Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire. Results: Significant...
Neuroimage
July 7, 2018
Tammi R. A. Kral, Brianna S. Schuyler, Jeanette A. Mumford et al.
ABSTRACT Meditation training can improve mood and emotion regulation, yet the neural mechanisms of these affective changes have yet to be fully elucidated. We evaluated the impact of long‐ and short‐term mindfulness meditation training on the amygdala response to emotional pictures in a healthy, non‐clinical population of adults using blood‐oxygen level dependent functional magnetic resonance...
Zhonghua xiandai huli zazhi
July 6, 2018
Hongxia Zhao, Yuan Yuan, Changying Chen
6 citations
Objective To study the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training on the negative emotions in elderly patients with chronic heart failure. Methods A total of 148 cases of elderly patients with chronic heart failure undergoing standard medication therapy for heart failure from February 2015 to February 2016 in the Internal Medicine-Cardiovascular Department of the First...
Journal of Affective Disorders
July 6, 2018
David Lovas, Zev Schuman-Olivier
Background: Persisting high levels of relapse, morbidity and mortality in bipolar disorder (BD) in spite of first-line, evidence-based psychopharmacology has spurred development and research on adjunctive psychotherapies. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an emerging psychotherapy that has shown benefit in related and comorbid conditions such as major depressive, anxiety, and...
Breast cancer research and treatment
July 5, 2018
Bertha Andrade Coelho, Sara de Pinho Cunha Paiva, Agnaldo Lopes Da Silva Filho
Purpose: Mindfulness-based programs can reduce stress and help practitioners to have positive attitudes in their daily lives. This randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact of brief Mindfulness interventions on quantitative and qualitative stress parameters in patients undergoing imaging-guided breast biopsies. Methods: Eighty-two women undergoing percutaneous imaging-guided breast...
Mindfulness
July 5, 2018
Dandan Pang, Willibald Ruch
32 citations
The factor structure of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) seems to vary across samples depending on whether meditators or non-meditators are studied and whether a sample is analyzed before or after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. The current study illustrates the inconsistencies typically found (e.g., whether all five facets can load on an overall construct of mindfulness),...
Journal of Health Psychology
July 5, 2018
Lu Lu, Tianran Zhang, Rui Gao et al.
8 citations
This article presents a study protocol for a single-blind randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy and feasibility of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. A total of 120 un-medicated Chinese obsessive-compulsive disorder patients will be randomized to the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor group or the psycho-education group for 11...
International Journal of Life Science and Pharma Research
July 4, 2018
Behrooz Birashk, Farshad Sheybani, Banafsheh Gharraee et al.
2 citations
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in developing countries. Research has shown that the level of oxidative stress and interleukin 6 (IL-6) is higher in individuals with hypertension than individuals with normal blood pressure. Therefore, the aim of the present randomized clinical trial study was to compare the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and...
Traffic injury prevention
July 4, 2018
Sjaan Koppel, Amanda N Stephens, Kristie L Young et al.
This study investigated the relationship between self-reported aberrant driving behaviors, mindfulness, and self-reported crashes and infringements. Three hundred and eighteen participants (M = 46.0 years, SD = 13.7 years; female: 81.8%) completed an online survey that assessed aberrant driving behaviors, mindfulness (including regular mindfulness meditation [MM]), and self-reported crashes and...
Psychology, Health & Medicine
July 3, 2018
Yueyan Fang, Xiaofei Kang, Xiujuan Feng et al.
The present study aimed to examine the potential moderating role of personality traits in the psychological mechanisms by which mindfulness can lead to better sleep quality. A total of 172 oncology nurses participated in this study, and completed self-reported measures, including the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and 44-item Big Five Inventory...