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Mindfulness Interventions Reduce Anxiety, Depression, and Fatigue in Lung Cancer Patients
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.
A Brief Loving Kindness Meditation FOR NICU Nurses Reduced Compassion Fatigue
Compassion fatigue is defined as a physical and emotional exhaustion alongside diminished empathy
in caregivers of persons who experience suffering from acute or chronic health conditions. Loving Kindness Meditation is a practice with ancient roots and a component of modern Mindfulness practices. This study demonstrates that Loving Kindness Meditation for NICU nurses was an effective and easily implemented intervention to promote nursing resilience and prevent compassion fatigue.
Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Nursing Staff Burn-Out
The research paper describes a study to investigate the impact of a nurse led mindfulness meditation on compassion fatigue on a nursing unit of a large metropolitan hospital in the US. The study suggests that brief (5 minute) nurse-led interventions can have a significant impact reducing compassion fatigue and burn-out.
Effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions on burnout and self-compassion among critical care nurses caring for patients with COVID-19: a quasi-experimental study.
The research paper describes a study to investigate the impact of a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on nurse burnout. The study found that nurses in the intervention group showed significant improvements in burnout and highlights the importance of implementing mindfulness-based programs to support the mental health of nurses during challenging times.
Qualitative Study Demonstrates Benefits of Shared Meditation Involving Cancer Patients, Health Professionals and Third Persons
A qualitative study focusing on shared mindfulness meditation among cancer patients, health professionals, and third persons demonstrated acceptability and benefits for participants. The study design utilized an intervention similar to Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) which described in detail. The study included focus groups with patients, health professionals, and third persons, revealing positive perceptions towards meditating together.
A Brief (3-minute) Mindfulness Intervention Demonstrates Reduced Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Hospital Nursing Staff
I focus on this study for three reasons:
1) It is brief and potentially replicable as an intervention in other settings at minimal cost.
2) The Intervention – the Three Minute Breathing Space – has demonstrated efficacy and is easily taught.
3) The study author was taught to teach the Three Minute Breathing Space by one of the authors of the intervention, Zindel Siegal of the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.
4) I was taught to teach the Three Minute Breathing Space by staff of the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation as part of the three hour curriculum “Introducing Mindfulness”.
Mindfulness, Attention, & High Stress – Training Our Minds To Strengthen Our Resilience.
In this podcast Dr. Amishi Jha describes the brain’s attention system as “the lifeblood of our experience”. Using fMRI, EEGs, and behavioral measures she studies the brain’s ability to notice and focus on specific information, both external and internal, the degradation caused by stress, and how mindfulness training can strengthen and improve attention, especially for nurses, physicians, and other frontline workers.
MBSR benefits patients with breast cancer under early chemotherapy
MBSR is an effective intervention for improving quality of life and reducing psychological distress in patients with breast cancer who are receiving early chemotherapy.
MBSR Helps Manage Rumination in Women with Breast Cancer
MBSR provides protection against an increase in rumination following treatment, as compared to a control group. Study provides clear description of a variation of MBSR used in this study.