Preliminary Investigation of Workplace-Provided Compressed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Pediatric Medical Social Workers

Abstract

Mindfulness practices, including mindfulness meditation, show promise for decreasing stress among health care providers. This exploratory study investigates the feasibility of a two-day compressed mindfulness-based stress reduction (cMBSR) course provided in the hospital workplace with pediatric health care social workers. The standard course of Jon Kabat-Zinn's MBSR requires a participant commitment to eight weeks of instruction consisting of one 2.5-hour-per-week class, a single day retreat, and 45 minutes of practice for six of seven days each week. Commitments to family, work, caregiving, education, and so on, as well as limitations such as distance, may prevent health care providers from participating in a standard MBSR course. Using t tests, researchers measured the effect of cMBSR on (a) positive and negative experiences in pediatric social work, (b) perceived stress, (c) mindfulness, and (d) caring self-efficacy (as a component of patient- and family-centered care). Results included significant differences between the pre- and post-intervention outcome variables on the Professional Quality of Life Secondary Traumatic Stress subscale, the Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale, and the Caring Efficacy Scale. Findings found adequate evidence for the feasibility of cMBSR design and for a need of a more rigorous study of the effects of the cMBSR intervention.

The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on the Psychological Functioning of Healthcare Professionals: a Systematic Review

“…Included an additional Loving Kindness meditation to the standard MBSR techniques thus this could have biased the findings. Suyi et al ( 2017 ) Effectiveness of mindfulness intervention in reducing stress and burnout in mental health professionals in Singapore Small monetary imbursement after each study visit. Pre-post design and follow up at 3 months Three cohorts No control group Mental health professionals including nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, case managers, pharmacist, psychologist/counsellors and researchers Participants n = 44 Final n = 37 Follow-up n = 37 Gender: Male, 18.9% Female, 81.1% Age: < 25, 5.4% 25–30, 27% 30–35, 24.3% 35–40, 13.5% 40–45, 16.2% > 45, 13.5% Ethnicity: Chinese, 78.4% Malay, 5.4% Indian, 10.8% Self-selected sample.…”

“…Eighteen studies reported significant reductions in stress and four studies reported non-significant findings (Duchemin et al 2015 ; Martin-Asuero and Garcia-Banda 2010 ; Moody et al 2013 ; Trowbridge et al 2017 ). Of note, one study reported a reduction in stress on the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (Lovibond and Lovibond 1995 ), but a non-significant finding on the Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen et al 1983 ; Duchemin et al 2015 ).…”

“…Findings were non-significant for resilience (Fortney et al 2013 ). Two MBSR programmes were 2 days in duration and yielded significant improvements for stress, mindfulness, emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation (Schroeder et al 2016 ; Trowbridge et al 2017 ) and were maintained at 3-month follow-up. However, non-significant findings for stress, burnout (Trowbridge et al 2017 ), self-compassion, resilience and personal accomplishment (Schroeder et al 2016 ) were also reported.…”

Influence of Work Characteristics on the Association Between Police Stress and Sleep Quality

“…The results indicate that mental representation of stressors may cause prolonged physiological activation and consequently affect sleep quality. According to the stressor–PC–poor sleep model, mindfulness may be effective for sleep promotion [30] in police officers.…”

Implementación del programa “minuto de oro” en Mahou San Miguel

“…Fuente: Adaptado de Reitz , Waller, Chaskalson, Olivier, & Rupprecht, 2020;Herda , Cañon , & Young, 2019;Reb, Chaturvedi, Narayanan, & Kudesia, 2019;Yu & Zellmer-Bruhn, 2018;Trowbridge, Lawson, Andrews, Pecora, & Boyd, 2017. En las investigaciones encontradas se puede observar que la decisión de implementar mindfulness en el ámbito laboral, tenía como objetivo introducir la atención plena en el lugar de trabajo, medir el impacto y el efecto que genera en las organizaciones. Otras investigaciones se enfocaron en reducir los niveles de estrés de sus colaboradores e incrementar su eficiencia en el desempeño de funciones.…”