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Filter by:The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a 16 week mindfulness-based coaching program compared to a cardiovascular risk reduction education program. Both groups will undergo 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, along with assessments of psychological measures (see bellow) at study baseline, midpoint (8 weeks), and conclusion (16 weeks). In addition, both groups will also undergo 24-hour Holter monitoring assessments at study beginning and conclusion to assess possible episodes of atrial tachyarrhythmia during the assessed interval.
The goal of this study is to conduct a single arm open trial to examine the feasibility of a brief, adjunctive mindfulness intervention tailored to the needs of adolescents with severe obesity.
Hispanics are the largest ethnic group in the US as well as the fastest growing. Yet, despite being such a large population group, Hispanics are under-studied and under-represented in most studies of health, psychological well-being, and mind-body interventions. For many Hispanic immigrants, life in the U.S. carries multiple socio-economic stressors, which places them at higher risk for depression and other poor health-related quality of life outcomes. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a group-based training shown to reduce stress and improve overall well-being. There is a quality gap about adaptation and implementation of MBSR programs in community settings and among Hispanic immigrants. This K23 seeks to adapt and test the implementation of an MBSR intervention among under-resourced Hispanic immigrants in St. Louis guided by methods and frameworks from the field of dissemination and implementation (D&I) science as applied to community settings. Implementation research of mindfulness-based interventions among Hispanic immigrant populations is justifiable under several conditions, including ineffective clinical engagement with this population, risk or resilience factors that are unique to the Hispanic community, and lack of cultural relevance of many evidence-based MBIs.
The objective of this study is to understand the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) in students and to determine whether Mindfulness based stress resilience training (MBSR) is effective for promoting mental health in students with high ACE scores (>3). A double-blind randomized control study will examine the efficacy of MBSR in promoting positive change in measures of hope, rumination, forgiveness and stress.
This study aims to examine whether greater length of mindfulness practice results in more beneficial outcomes.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an 8-week intervention based on implementation intention (motivation) in patients with multiple sclerosis on objectively measured physical activity.
Medical simulation is a technique that creates a situation or environment to allow persons to experience a representation of a real event for the purpose of practice, learning, evaluation, testing or to gain understanding of systems or human actions Non-technical skills in pediatric simulation are the skills of communication, leadership, teamwork, situational awareness, decision-making, resource management, safe practice, adverse event minimization, and professionalism, also known as teamwork skills. Mindfulness is the self-regulation of attention with an attitude of curiosity, openness and acceptance. Executive functions include a collection of interrelated functions that are responsible for purposeful, goal-directed, problem-solving behavior. In this project, the investigators aim to check whether features of mindfulness and executive functions can be used to predict teamwork skills of medical students during repeated high-fidelity simulations in emergency pediatric care. The project will include simulation center in Bialystok, Poland. The investigators will conduct this project over a time of 2 years. Team project is made up of 5 persons, including psychologist, simulation instructors and pediatricians. Participants will be students of medical faculty in medical university. The investigators expect to include at least 340 students in the study which will result in 180 assessed as main or second leaders in repeated simulations. Team project will assess the students during high-fidelity pediatric emergency simulations. Methods of assessment of medical students during pediatric emergency simulations: features of mindfulness (Mindful Attention Awareness Scale), assessment of executive functions (The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functions - Adult), non-technical skills (Ottawa Crisis Resource Management scale & checklist), technical skills (checklists) and stress. The researchers first will examine association between mindfulness or executive functions and demographic variables. And finally team project will assess the possibility of prediction of non-technical performance level during medical simulations with the use of mindfulness and executive functions assessment. In general the investigators anticipate that the results of the study will lead to the better understanding of mechanisms that influence non-technical skills in medical students during pediatric emergency cases.
The objective of this project is to study the influence of mindfulness meditation on psychological health (stress level, affects, emotions) and physical health parameters (rate of inflammatory markers in the blood, activity of white blood cells involved in immuno-inflammation) in caregivers of people with psychiatric disorders. This study will provide the objective scientific data required for the development of mindfulness meditation programs for psychiatric caregivers. 80 participants will be randomly assigned to one of the following two groups: - 40 participants in the "Mindfulness" group who will attend mindfulness meditation sessions in addition to their standard follow-up - 40 participants in the "Control" group who will have a standard follow-up The duration of participation is 12 months and includes 3 visits and 8 mindfulness-based meditation sessions for the "Mindfulness" group.
The aim of the study is to find out, weather the students' wellbeing and functional ability can be enhanced by two different type of mindfulness interventions: 1) face-to-face group-based training, and 2) internet-based training based in mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy. Study results may be used to decide whether it is worth offering mindfulness training for medical faculty students, and what kind of training would be most suitable and effective in the medical education context.
Symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease and the leading cause of disability in industrialized countries. Therapeutic approaches to prevent the development and progression of osteoarthritis are disappointing and very limited. New therapeutic alternatives seem essential to better manage his daily life. Non-drug approaches, including psycho-corporal approaches are increasingly used in the management of chronic pain. Mindfulness is a technique of attention training, which is to focus one's attention on the present moment and to examine the sensations that come to mind, how they appear, how they last time, and how they disappear. Regarding rheumatological pathologies, a Mindfulness Program (MBSR) has shown its effectiveness in chronic pain; and in particular in osteo-articular localization, such as chronic low back pain. A recent study found a correlation between a pre-disposition to mindfulness and less pain and / or better quality of life in patients with knee osteoarthritis. However, to the knowledge of investigator, no study has evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention based on a mindfulness training program as a therapeutic alternative in osteoarthritis of the knee or hip. The goal of investigator is to evaluate, using a randomized, controlled study, the effect of a mindfulness program (according to the MBSR protocol) on pain, function, psychological state and quality of life patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis