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The healthcare industry is inherently demanding, stressful, and, at times, emotionally draining. On a typical day, many workers must make rapid and critical decisions, manage numerous demands, team conflicts, and challenging situations with patients and their families. For some health care workers (HCW), the current pandemic - COVID-19 - has also exacerbated these challenges. Providing psychological support is key in alleviating stress among HCWs, yet the situation does not require therapy because HCWs do not principally suffer from a mental disorder. RECHARGE was specifically developed for HCWs and is an abbreviated online version of Problem Management Plus, an evidence-based intervention that helps to cope with stress in times of crisis. As a brief psychological intervention for adults affected by adversity emerging from stress exposure, RECHARGE teaches people three well-documented strategies to manage acute stress (a: managing stress, b: managing worry, c: meaningful activity). It includes psychoeducation, arousal reduction techniques, managing worries and problem-solving skills, behavioral activation, and enhancement of meaningful activities, which are all based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of RECHARGE to reduce stress in HCWs and enhance their work performance. Participants in this randomized controlled trial (RCT) study are randomly assigned to either RECHARGE or the active control group. To this end, stress including symptoms of burnout, worries, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and work performance will be measured at baseline, post-intervention, and at a 2 and 6 month follow up.
COVID-19 is having profound effects on older adults' due to social isolation measures which may negatively impact individuals' mental and physical health. Recently, a telephone program, the Telehealth Intervention Program for Older Adults (TIP-OA), was created. In this program, a volunteer is calling older adults (ageā„60) every week to have a friendly conversation. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of this telephone program (TIP-OA) in reducing stress, improving the mental health of program users, and understand their experiences.
The effects of dietary fiber on psychobiological processes are examined in a sample of healthy volunteers.
Objective: This study was conducted to assess the effect of therapeutic touch on stress, daytime sleepiness, sleep quality and fatigue among the students of nursing and midwifery. Design: Randomized placebo-controlled study.
Simulation is an active teaching strategy capable of reproducing real situations and allowing practical experiences, in which the student is the protagonist of his own knowledge. Scientific evidence highlights, that exposure to the unknown or new can generate stress to the individual, but when dosed, to a certain extent it can increase the level of knowledge. Not infrequently, the lack of stress control can trigger physiological and subjective changes resulting from the increase in its level, such as situations that include the implementation of simulation scenarios in pedagogical teaching models.
This study aims to evaluate the effect of 8 weeks of a stress reduction intervention on atherosclerotic plaque inflammation in adults with stable coronary artery disease, as quantified by positron emission tomography (PET) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in individuals with increased psychosocial stress.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the health related benefits of a superfoods nutrition supplement on health related quality of life.
The study is a randomized controlled trail with an observational arm and aims at collecting information on the prevalence of COVID 19 infection in seasoned yoga practitioners by comparing it with the prevalence of COVID-19 infection prevalence rates among age and gender matched control participants who do not practice yoga. The study hypothesizes that yoga practice promotes protection and enhances recovery from the COVID-19 infection. To prove the hypothesis, the study investigators are collecting and comparing responses from seasoned yoga practitioners to age and gender matched controls participants (who do not practice yoga routinely) regarding their recovery from the COVID 19 infection. Based on validated questionnaires on perceived stress, anxiety, depression, well-being, mindfulness, joy disposition, and resilience in participants over the study duration, the investigators also collect information on participant's mental and emotional predispositions.
Medical students and medical residents are subject to increased stressors throughout their education. There is increased depression, anxiety, burnout, and distress in medical trainees compared to the general population. Globally, roughly 3 out of 10 medical students experience anxiety. A recent study also found that almost 3 out of 10 medical trainees experience depression or depressive symptoms and approximately 1 out of 10 have suicidal thoughts. All of this leads to poorer academics, increased dropout rates as well as reduced empathy and quality of care in affected trainees. Mindfulness programs are increasingly being used in medical schools to help deal with increased levels of depression, anxiety, stress, and burnout. Several studies have looked at medical students, medical residents, and various other healthcare professionals. These programs have been found to reduce depression, anxiety and stress while significantly improving mood, well being and mindfulness. Although in-person mindfulness programs have shown several benefits, there are limitations to its use in medical programs. A lack of time, flexibility, accessibility as well as the issue of cost, impact the uptake of in-person mindfulness programs. A potential alternative to this is online mindfulness programs. To date, there is limited research regarding medical students and online mindfulness programs. With that being said, studies focussed on other populations and online mindfulness have shown reductions in depression, anxiety and stress with improvements in mindfulness and mood. The study being proposed involves providing online mindfulness to medical students and residents in an 8-week program that consists of 8, 1-hour sessions with a mindfulness coach. Participants will be enrolled through informed consent. All participants will be given pre and post participation questionnaires to examine the impact of online mindfulness on anxiety, depression, stress and burnout. The results of this research may lead to future studies looking at the impact of online mindfulness practice for medical trainees and might also help open up the possibility of offering such programs in medical schools.