A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Impact of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on the Well-Being of Healthcare Professionals

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Title A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the wellbeing of healthcare professionals Mindfulness Note: This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in Mindfulness. It is not the copy of record.

Contemplative interventions and employee distress: A meta‐analysis

“…28, for a review), highlighting the importance of meta‐analysis. Although some meta‐analyses (e.g., Lomas et al, , ) show small to moderate effects for burnout, these findings are likely to be biased upwards given the omission of unpublished literature in these studies, as well as the smaller number of studies included. Our finding, based on a broader sample of literature, is consistent with the notion that burnout does not easily respond to interventions that target the individual but rather may need to be combined with structural interventions that concurrently address the work environment (see Maslach et al, ), such as cultivating an organizational climate that is supportive of employees' ability to proactively engage in mindfulness or other behaviors that support their well‐being (e.g., Slemp, Kern, Patrick, & Ryan, ; White, Slemp, & Murray, ).…”

“…Numerous reviews of mindfulness and meditation studies have been conducted to assess their impact on physical and mental health across general populations, on clinical and medical samples, and in students (e.g., Chiesa & Serretti, 2009;Grossman et al, 2004;Khoury, Sharma, Rush, & Fournier, 2015). Similar growth has occurred in organizational applications in both mixed-employee samples (e.g., Lomas, Medina, Ivtzan, Rupprecht, & Eiroa&Orosa, 2017;Virgili, 2015) and within specific occupational industries, including health care (e.g., Burton, Burgess, Dean, Koutsopoulou, & Hugh-Jones, 2017;Lomas, Medina, Ivtzan, Rupprecht, & Eiroa-Orosa, 2018a, 2018bLuken & Sammons, 2016;Smith, 2014) and education (e.g., Hwang, Bartlett, Greben, & Hand, 2017;Klingbeil & Renshaw, 2018;.…”

“…As seen in Table , five of the available reviews incorporated meta‐analysis to synthesize findings, but those that did focused either on specific organizational contexts (e.g., health care or education; Burton et al, ; Klingbeil & Renshaw, ; Lomas et al, ) or on a narrow intervention category, such as mindfulness (e.g., Virgili, ). Thus, prior meta‐analyses have typically excluded forms of ACT or meditation (Lomas et al, , , ), whereas these interventions are included in qualitative systematic reviews (e.g., Eby et al, in press; Lomas et al ). With these imprecise boundaries for eligibility, we suggest that prior mindfulness meta‐analyses of the workplace literature are underinclusive.…”

Destress 9-1-1—an online mindfulness-based intervention in reducing stress among emergency medical dispatchers: a randomised controlled trial

“…It is possible that a person begins to recognise low levels of mindfulness, and high levels of mindlessness, on learning about and practising mindful activities. Further, recent meta-analyses reveal that MBIs in the workplace tend to have only small 25 to medium effect sizes in enhancing mindfulness, 26 and a recent meta-analysis showed that clinical outcomes show significantly greater change following MBIs than self-reported mindfulness. 27 Though we examined mindfulness as a possible mechanism of change, researchers have shown enhanced insight, acceptance, attention regulation and theoretical transparency, 28 29 as well as increased compassion, increased meta-awareness and reduced worry 29 as potentially potent mechanisms of MBI-related change.…”

Positive Work: A Multidimensional Overview and Analysis of Work-Related Drivers of Wellbeing

“…Given the importance of awareness, and also the recognition that it can be trained, there is increasing attention on initiatives to foster awareness in the workplace. Much of this has focused on mindfulness, arguably the exemplar intervention in this respect see Lomas et al [2017aLomas et al [ , 2017bLomas et al [ , 2018aLomas et al [ , 2018bLomas et al [ , 2018c for a series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of this literature). For instance, a meta-analysis of mindfulness-based interventions in the workplace found it to be effective at reducing employee distress (Virgili 2015).…”