It Undermines Physical and Mental Health; Contributes to Anxiety and Depression; Increases Burnout; Impacts Work Life and Family Life.
Stress is a major contributing factor to:
It Fosters Health and Wellness; Supports Emotional Resilience and Balance; Benefits Work, Family and Community.
Mindfulness can help you:
The essentials in three One-Hour classes. Developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (Oxford University, UK) for those not ready to commit to an eight week course. Introducing Mindfulness is evidence based and an effective introduction for people with no prior meditation experience. Learn how mindfulness can support you in everyday life.
The definitive eight-week course developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 to support patients who weren’t getting full benefit from standard medical treatment. MBSR is an intensive introduction to mindfulness meditation and mindful living. Now offered at more than 750 medical centers world-wide.
A mixed Quantitative and Qualitative review supports the benefits of Mindfulness Based Interventions for people with many types of cancer throughout the course of the illness and brings the subjects actual experience of MBIs into the formal research discussion.
Here is another small study which supports the benefits of Mindfulness Interventions to support nurses’ well-being and address sleep disturbance, which the study reports is common in Intensive Care Unit Nurses. The study design is particularly interesting because it compares a live Mindfulness Intervention consisting of four one-hour weekly sessions with home practice to a control consisting of watching four Mindfulness videos. Improvement in self-reported sleep disturbance was reported by both groups, with greater benefit
Well, not exactly. More like a planning guide for introducing Mindfulness Based Interventions in a hospital. This 2024 qualitative review of 18 studies synthesized the factors affecting implementation in hospital settings. The study identified three overall themes important for successful implementation. Reading this study reminded me of my experiences as a new graduate RN. I was employed in a rural hospital in the Catskill region of New York State. I was on a committee which
Qualitative study shows that a brief, five week course of two hour classes and home practice of applied mindfulness based on the teachings of Zen Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh were acceptable to a population of physicians and was effective to increase their perceived sense of wellness and enhance communication with their patients and colleagues.
In a departure from my usual choice of studies to highlight in this blog I’ll share with the reader a “look under the hood” for a glimpse into the process of teaching mindfulness. Here is an interesting analysis of features of guided mindfulness recordings which may enhance or degrade the learner’s experience. I experience the creation of a guided practice recording to have elements of logic and planning mixed with a sense of the art
A 2023 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis showed that mindfulness-based interventions such as MBSR and MBCT may significantly reduce psychological symptoms and fatigue in patients with lung cancer. Programs which utilized shorter ( 8 weeks) highly structured interventions showed better effects than longer, less programs.