Psychological stress is a major provocative factor of symptoms in chronic inflammatory conditions. In recent years, interest in addressing stress responsivity through meditation training in health-related domains has increased astoundingly, despite a paucity of evidence that reported benefits are specific to meditation practice. We designed the present study to rigorously compare an 8-week Mind...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the relationships between a mindfulness-based stress reduction meditation program for early stage breast and prostate cancer patients and quality of life, mood states, stress symptoms, lymphocyte counts, and cytokine production. METHODS Forty-nine patients with breast cancer and 10 with prostate cancer participated in an 8-week MBSR program that incorporated...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect a Mindfulness-based program on mindfulness levels and in risk illness associated with stress at work primary health care (PHC) professionals Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. This quasi-experimental study, 26 PHC professionals, using quantitative methods an analytical before after approach 8-week Mindfulness Program. intervention was evaluated applyin...

BACKGROUND Prolonged psychological stress is a risk factor for illness and constitutes an increasing public health challenge creating a need to develop public interventions specifically targeting stress and promoting mental health. The present randomized controlled trial evaluated health effects of a novel program: Relaxation-Response-based Mental Health Promotion (RR-MHP). METHODS The multim...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE African Americans suffer disproportionately higher cardiovascular disease mortality rates than do whites. Psychosocial stress influences the development and progression of atherosclerosis. Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) is a valid surrogate measure for coronary atherosclerosis, is a predictor of coronary outcomes and stroke, and is associated with psychosocial stres...

aim and background: previous studies suggest that mental stress may influence serum lipid levels. this study was conducted on adult population living in rural and urban areas in central iran to assess the correlation between stress levels and lipid profile disorders. methods and materials: data was extracted from final evaluation of isfahan healthy heart program (ihhp) in 2008. multistage clust...

pinto bean is a susceptible plant to drought stress. however, there is genotype variation for this trait in this plant. in order to investigate the effects of drought stress on physiological traits and grain yield of pinto bean genotypes cultivated in zanjan province, an experiment was conducted as spilt plot based on a completely randomized block design with four replications at zanjan univers...