Psychometric Evaluation of a Sinhalese Version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire and Development of a Six-Facet Short Form in a Sri Lankan Buddhist Context

Baminiwatta, Anuradha; Alahakoon, Helani; Herath, Namal C.; Kodithuwakku, Keerthi M.; Nanayakkara, Thilini

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“…To measure trait mindfulness, the six-facet short form of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ; Baer et al, 2006 ) developed in the Sinhalese language was used (Baminiwatta et al, 2022 ). A detailed psychometric evaluation of the SFMQ—Sinhala version was reported previously (Baminiwatta et al, 2022 ). SFMQ consists of 20 items selected from the 39 items in the FFMQ using factor analytic findings.…”

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Trait Mindfulness, Compassion, and Stigma Towards Patients with Mental Illness: A Study Among Nurses in Sri Lanka

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Objectives Stigma towards persons with mental illness is widespread. Mindfulness may protect against stigma by cultivating accepting attitudes, non-reactivity, and prosocial emotions. This study aimed to assess whether higher trait mindfulness among nurses was linked to lower stigma towards psychiatric patients, and whether compassion mediated this relationship. Method In this cross-sectional study among nurses in four tertiary care hospitals in Sri Lanka, stigma towards psychiatric patients was assessed using the Attribution Questionnaire (AQ-9), which assesses nine separate domains of stigma. The 20-item Six-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire and the 5-item Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale were used to assess mindfulness and compassion, respectively. Correlations among these variables were explored. Mediation analyses were performed. Results A total of 405 nurses (90.6% female, mean age = 39.6 years) participated in the study. Those with higher trait mindfulness were more likely to believe they would help a person with mental illness, and less likely to believe a person with mental illness should be avoided or segregated from the society. Compassion was inversely correlated with avoidance and anger, and positively correlated with pity, helping, and coercion domains. Trait mindfulness was positively correlated with compassion. Mediation models revealed that compassion partially mediated the effects of trait mindfulness on helping and avoidance. Facet-level analyses revealed significant effects of describing, non-reactivity, and observing on several stigma domains mediated through compassion. Conclusions Trait mindfulness among nurses appears to have a direct buffering effect against several domains of stigma towards psychiatric patients and significant indirect effects through compassion, albeit with small effect sizes. Preregistration This study is not pre-registered.

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“…The authors recommend using subscale scores for analysis and not total scores. It has been adapted into two short forms-a 24-item and a 15-item version (Baer et al, 2012) and has been translated into other languages (Baminiwatta et al, 2022).…”

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Dispositional mindfulness and its relationship to preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain in adults undergoing hysterectomy

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The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how mindfulness practices might be able to benefit surgical patients. Manuscript 1 was a critical review of psychometric questionnaires used to measure mindfulness. It updated prior critiques of mindfulness questionnaires by including newer tools and was the first updated review of this topic in about a decade. Manuscript 2 was an integrative review of where mindfulness was studied with surgical patients, specifically around the experiences of preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain during the perioperative timeframe. It is likely the most comprehensive review of perioperative mindfulness studies to date. Manuscript 3 was an examination of dispositional mindfulness and preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain in adults having gynecological surgery. It went beyond many prior studies in that it included preoperative anxiety, postoperative pain, postoperative opioid consumption, and length of stay. Collectively, this dissertation work suggests that adding a preoperative mindfulness-based intervention into surgical pathways could have some benefit for patients by reducing anxiety, pain and opioid consumption. More research needs to be done to determine the specific benefits of mindfulness-based interventions in surgical patients, including which populations might benefit most, and the most effective intervention modality, timing, and delivery methods. journey, starting in Charlottesville, advancing in Boston, and then circling back again to Charlottesville. I would like to express my deep gratitude to my dissertation committee: Maria van Pelt, Ph.D., CRNA, Lichuan Ye, Ph.D., RN, and Kara Pavone, Ph.D., RN. They offered me mentorship, guidance, kindness and patience during every small and large step along the way. I want to acknowledge the Nurse Anesthesia program at Northeastern University for helping me to grow into a nursing specialty that I am extremely passionate about. I want to thank the CRNAs, anesthesiologists and other professionals that I have worked alongside during my time at BWH and UVA. I also want to thank Dr. Leigh Cantrell, Anita McCray and the rest of UVA GYN/ONC team for allowing me to work with their patients. I want to thank the UVA anesthesiology department and their research team, including Dr. Bhiken Naik, for their support during this process and specifically Dr. Siny Tsang for her support with data analysis.

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The structural relations of dispositional mindfulness, Zhongyong, resilience, and subjective well-being among Chinese high school students

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Qiu³

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Psychometric Evaluation of a Sinhalese Version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire and Development of a Six-Facet Short Form in a Sri Lankan Buddhist Context

Cited by 4 publications

References 59 publications

Trait Mindfulness, Compassion, and Stigma Towards Patients with Mental Illness: A Study Among Nurses in Sri Lanka

Trait Mindfulness, Compassion, and Stigma Towards Patients with Mental Illness: A Study Among Nurses in Sri Lanka

Dispositional mindfulness and its relationship to preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain in adults undergoing hysterectomy

The structural relations of dispositional mindfulness, Zhongyong, resilience, and subjective well-being among Chinese high school students

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