Journal of Clinical Oncology
June 28, 2018
Felix R. Compen, Else Bisseling, Melanie P. J. Schellekens et al.
Purpose Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has been shown to alleviate psychological distress in patients with cancer. However, patients experience barriers to participating in face-to-face MBCT. Individual Internet-based MBCT (eMBCT) could be an alternative. The study aim was to compare MBCT and eMBCT with treatment as usual (TAU) for psychological distress in patients with cancer....
Journal of Diabetes Research
June 28, 2018
A. Armani Kian, B. Vahdani, A. A. Noorbala et al.
Objective. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention on emotion regulation and glycemic control of patients with type 2 diabetes. Materials and Methods. Sixty patients with type 2 diabetes were recruited for this randomized controlled trial from an outpatient clinic at Imam Hospital in Iran. The intervention group participated in...
JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization
June 28, 2018
Rahul Ingle, R N Awale
Vipassana meditation is a type of mindfulness meditation technique mostly practices in southwest part of the globe, where relaxing but highly awake and alert mind state is achieved. Vipassana Meditation involvement was carried out for a group of mid-aged people. These people constantly dealing with high level of stress. This research evaluates advance signal processing methodologies of...
Petra
June 26, 2018
Thrasyvoulos Karydis, S. Langer, S. Foster et al.
Since antiquity meditation in its various forms has been robustly associated with multiple physical and mental measurable changes of state. Obstacles to widespread access to the advantageous effects of meditation include the practice time necessary to become an expert meditator and the identification of a personalized beneficial meditative state once achieved. This work leverages previously...
Revista Psicologia e Saúde
June 26, 2018
Shayna Fox Lee, Jacy L. Young
8 citations
The recent surge in popularity of the concept ‘mindfulness’ in academic, professional, and popular psychology has been remarkable. the ease with which mindfulness has gained traction in the health sciences and cultural imagination makes it apparent mindfulness is well-suited to our current social climate, appealing to both, experts and laypeople. as a subdiscipline established relatively late...
Personality & social psychology bulletin
June 25, 2018
Eric E Jones, James H Wirth, Alex T Ramsey et al.
Despite the pain ostracism (being excluded and ignored) causes, researchers have minimally investigated factors related to reducing its occurrence. We investigated the association between higher trait mindfulness (the tendency to be attentive to the present moment) and lower engagement in ostracism. In Study 1, employed adults scoring higher on trait mindfulness reported ostracizing coworkers...
Frontiers in Psychology
June 25, 2018
Akihiko Masuda, Rachel D Marshall, Janet D Latner
The present cross-sectional study examined whether mindfulness moderated the association between eating disorder cognition and eating disorder behaviors among Asian American, Black American, and White American female college students in the United States. Participants (N = 463, age range = 18-25 years) completed self-report measures online. Results revealed that mindfulness moderated the...
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
June 25, 2018
Ingeborg Farver-Vestergaard, Maja O’Connor, Nina C Smith et al.
25 citations
INTRODUCTION: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy has been shown to reduce psychological distress in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but uptake and attendance rates of hospital-based, face-to-face mindfulness-based cognitive therapy are low. The present mixed-methods study evaluates the clinical feasibility of home-based, tele-delivered mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in chronic...
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
June 25, 2018
Jonathan Dang, Luma Bashmi, Stephen Meeneghan et al.
2 citations
Background: An increasing number of patients and practitioners are using mindfulness meditation programs despite uncertainty about the evidence supporting these programs’ health benefits. Aim: To review the current evidence on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) on depressive symptoms and quality of life (QOL) among patients with depression comorbid medical conditions and...
Psychological Disorders and Research
June 25, 2018
Jennifer Kim Penberthy
1 citation
Psychiatric patients in the hospital suffer from stressors and challenges that may contribute to their hospitalization. They also suffer additional stressors related to being an inpatient. The psychiatric consultation liaison service of a hospital or health system is designed to respond to patients when stressors have accumulated, and patients are deemed to be at risk or when patients are...