Effects of a Brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention Program on Psychological Symptoms and Well-Being Among Medical Students in Malaysia: A Controlled Study

Keng, Shian‐Ling; Phang, Cheng Kar; Oei, Tian P. S.

doi:10.1521/ijct.2015.8.4.335

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“…Mindfulness gave significant effects on reducing the students' stress level (Erogul et al, 2014). Another interesting finding was also reported by Keng (2015). Mindfulness intervention in 4 weeks and 3 hours in each session significantly reduced stress in the students (p < 0.05) (Keng, 2015).…”

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Effectiveness of Mindfulness on Decreasing Stress in Health Professional Students: A Systematic Review

Fahmi

Dwidiyanti

Wijayanti

2018

Holistic Nursing and Health Science

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Background: Stress in health professional students is increasing every year. Therefore it is necessary to implement stress management for the students. Mindfulness is an alternative which can be used to deal with stress. Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review is to describe the effectiveness of mindfulness on decreasing stress in health professional students. Methods: This systematic review was conducted by searching relevant articles published in online databases EBSCO, Science Direct, PubMed, and Google. The search was restricted to the full-text articles published in 2010-2017 and employed the RCTs and non-RCTs research designs with a mindfulness intervention.Results: Of the ten articles reviewed, it was found that mindfulness could decrease stress in professional health students with a very significant p-value. The types of mindfulness administered to the health professional students included yoga therapy, MBSR therapy, and meditation therapy. In average, MBSR therapy is used for health professional students. This intervention is practiced through meditation which lasts for 5-35 minutes for 3-6 weeks. Conclusion: The study reported that, in average, the intervention to decrease stress in health professional students is performed by using MBSR with a meditation of 5-35 minutes. The intervention is done for 3-6 weeks. Results found that MBSR mindfulness could decrease stress. Further research is needed to explore the effectiveness of mindfulness on other subjects such as students who get scholarships.

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Effectiveness of Mindfulness on Decreasing Stress in Health Professional Students: A Systematic Review

Fahmi

Dwidiyanti

Wijayanti

2018

Holistic Nursing and Health Science

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“…This programme was adapted from the 8‐week MBSR (Kabat‐Zinn, ) and MBCT programmes (Segal & Teasdale, ). The programme was of 5 weeks duration with two hourly sessions per week; it was initially adapted for use among medical students (Keng, Phang, & Oei, ; Phang, Chiang, Ng, Keng, & Oei, ; Phang, Keng, & Chiang, ; Phang, Mukhtar, Ibrahim, Keng, & Mohd. Sidik S, ).…”

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“…One of the adapted programmes was a brief Mindfulness‐based Stress Reduction (b‐MBSR) which was a 4‐week version of the MBSR and MBCT (Mackenzie et al, ). Another programme consisted of MBSR and MBCT; the Mindful‐Gym, a 5‐week programme, which was adapted to serve the multi‐ethnic community in Malaysia (Keng et al, ; Phang et al, , , ). These shorter programmes give nurses the opportunity to learn mindfulness despite their heavy work schedule, which often prevents them from attending the full 8‐week MBSR.…”

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Mindfulness‐based stress reduction for psychological distress among nurses: A systematic review

Ghawadra

Abdullah

Choo

et al. 2019

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives To explore the studies that used interventions based on the Mindfulness‐Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for decreasing psychological distress among nurses. Background Because of the demanding nature of their work, nurses often have significantly high levels of stress, anxiety and depression. MBSR has been reported to be an effective intervention to decrease psychological distress. Design Systematic review. Methods The databases included were Science Direct, PubMed, EBSCO host, Springer Link and Web of Science from 2002 to 2018. Interventional studies published in English that used MBSR among nurses to reduce their psychological distress were retrieved for review. The PRISMA guideline was used in this systematic review. The included studies were assessed for quality using “The Quality Assessment Tool For Quantitative Studies (QATFQS).” Results Nine studies were found to be eligible and included in this review. Many benefits, including reduced stress, anxiety, depression, burnout and better job satisfaction, were reported in these studies. Conclusion The adapted/brief versions of MBSR seem promising for reducing psychological distress in nurses. Future research should include randomised controlled trials with a larger sample size and follow‐up studies. There should also be a focus on creative and effective ways of delivering MBSR to nurses. Relevance to clinical practice The results of this review are substantial for supporting the use of MBSR for nurses’ psychological well‐being.

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“…Prior research examining the impact of trait mindfulness on improvements from mindfulness training has shown variable results (e.g. Greeson et al, 2015;Keng et al, 2015;Shapiro et al, 2011), but has largely focused on trait mindfulness as a unitary construct. We observed that individuals who tend to be less aware of their experiences and actions had the greatest improvements on task persistence following mindfulness training.…”

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The Effect of a Brief Mindfulness Training on Distress Tolerance and Stress Reactivity

2019

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Distress tolerance (DT) is considered an underlying facet of anxiety, depression and a number of other psychological disorders. Mindfulness may help to increase DT by fostering an attitude of acceptance non-judgment toward distressing experiences. Accordingly, the present study examined the effects of a brief mindfulness training on tolerance of different types of distress, and tested whether trait mindfulness moderates the effect of such training. Undergraduates (n = 107) naïve to mindfulness completed a measure of trait mindfulness and underwent a series of stress tasks (cold pressor, hyperventilation challenge, neutralization task) before and after completing a 15-minute mindfulness training or a no-instruction control in which participants listened to relaxing music. Participants in the mindfulness condition demonstrated greater task persistence on the hyperventilation task compared to the control group, as well as a decreased urge to neutralize the effects of writing an upsetting sentence. No effect on distress ratings during the tasks were found. Overall trait mindfulness did not significantly moderate task persistence, but those with lower scores on the act with awareness facet of mindfulness demonstrated greater relative benefit of mindfulness training on the hyperventilation challenge. Mediation analyses revealed significant indirect effects of mindfulness training on cold pressor task persistence and urges to neutralize through the use of the non-judge and non-react facets of mindfulness. These results suggest that a brief mindfulness training can increase DT without affecting the subjective experience of distress.

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Effects of a Brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention Program on Psychological Symptoms and Well-Being Among Medical Students in Malaysia: A Controlled Study

Cited by 23 publications

References 41 publications

Effectiveness of Mindfulness on Decreasing Stress in Health Professional Students: A Systematic Review

Effectiveness of Mindfulness on Decreasing Stress in Health Professional Students: A Systematic Review

Mindfulness‐based stress reduction for psychological distress among nurses: A systematic review

The Effect of a Brief Mindfulness Training on Distress Tolerance and Stress Reactivity

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