BACKGROUND Medical students confront significant academic, psychosocial, and existential stressors throughout their training. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an educational intervention designed to improve coping skills and reduce emotional distress. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the MBSR intervention in a prospective, nonrandomized, cohort...

Background/Aims With work-related stress and the current COVID-19 pandemic, nurses are at heightened risk of burnout. Mindfulness-based interventions have been seen to decrease burnout, yet research into effectiveness for nursing staff is limited. This review adds growing body literature surrounding mindfulness explores benefit it may clinical professionals. The aim this study was critically ap...

  Background: Cancer is not merely an event with a certain end, but it is a permanent and vague situation that is determined by delayed effects due to the disease, its treatment and its related psychological issues. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program and conscious yoga on the mental fatigue severity and life quality of women ...

Twenty-seven adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse participated in a pilot study comprising an 8-week mindfulness meditation-based stress reduction (MBSR) program and daily home practice of mindfulness skills. Three refresher classes were provided through final follow-up at 24 weeks. Assessments of depressive symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and mindfulness, were co...

BACKGROUND Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) is increasingly being used to improve outcomes such as stress and depression in a range of long-term conditions (LTCs). While systematic reviews on MBSR have taken place for a number of conditions there remains limited information on its impact on individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS Medline, Central, Embase, Amed, CINAHAL wer...

BACKGROUND Mindfulness means paying attention in the present moment, non-judgmentally, without commentary or decision-making. We report results of a pilot study designed to test the feasibility of using Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) (with minor modifications) as a smoking intervention. METHODS MBSR instructors provided instructions in mindfulness in eight weekly group sessions. Su...

It is 10:00 Friday morning at the Yale School of Nursing in New Haven, Connecticut. I greet students as they arrive for the fifth session of an elective course entitled "The Stress Reduction and Relaxation Program." This eight week program provides intensive training in mindfulness meditation, and introduces meditation as a therapeutic intervention in the health care system. There are 20 studen...

Recent studies indicate that mindfulness meditation training interventions reduce stress and improve stress-related health outcomes, but the neural pathways for these effects are unknown. The present research evaluates whether mindfulness meditation training alters resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the amygdala, a region known to coordinate stress processing and physiological stre...

In this study, the authors both developed and validated a self-report mindfulness measure, the Toronto Mindfulness Scale (TMS). In Study 1, participants were individuals with and without meditation experience. Results showed good internal consistency and two factors, Curiosity and Decentering. Most of the expected relationships with other constructs were as expected. The TMS scores increased wi...