Helping people to help themselves: an eight-week mindfulness course for people living with a long-term inflammatory condition

The effects of mindfulness training on persistent or intermittent sub-acute pain: using the Headspace®application

“…One such psychological intervention is mindfulness and this is increasingly being used in health care to assist patients in managing pain, stress and anxiety and in targeting additional health, wellness and quality of life outcomes [4,5]. Numerous systematic reviews and randomised control trials have highlighted that Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) can attenuate the experience of pain [4,5,6,7,8] Hardison and Roll [4] in their review of the literature on the use of mindfulness in physical rehabilitation concluded that mindfulness interventions are helpful for patients with musculo-skeletal and chronic pain disorders. However they state that mindfulness interventions are generally complex and not fully integrated into standard rehabilitation interventions.…”

“…There are a vast number of techniques and programs which are included under the term 'mindfulness'. These include 7-minute sessions on the lower end of the spectrum, up to hour long sessions or even 8-week long courses at the upper end, which are provided with or without face-to-face therapist guidance [15,16,17,7]. However there is limited research into the dose-effect response for mindfulness interventions, and as a result the recommended advice on frequency and duration per session varies [18,19].…”