Role of Nature Therapy and Mindfulness for Resilience Among Rural Healthcare Providers

Harlow, Christina

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-60043-3_16

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“…It has been shown that practicing mindfulness reduces professionals' emotional overload and burnout, while also enhancing positive cognitive retraining [37]. Mindfulness strategies and nature therapy (immersing oneself in nature using all five senses) have been suggested as useful techniques to promote resilience, lessen burnout and to heal oneself, for healthcare providers in rural environments [76]. Furthermore, mindfulness has been positively linked to the capacity for withstanding uncomfortable emotions and feelings, the reduction in the impact of harmful emotional events and lower emotional reactivity [77].…”

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The Relationship between Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence as a Protective Factor for Healthcare Professionals: Systematic Review

Jiménez-Picón

Romero‐Martín

Ponce-Blandón

et al. 2021

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Emotional intelligence is an essential trait and skill for healthcare professionals. Mindfulness meditation has proved to be effective in increasing the wellbeing of those who practice it, leading to better mental health, self-care and job satisfaction. This paper aims to identify the recent evidence on the relationship between mindfulness and emotional intelligence among healthcare professionals and students. A systematic review was conducted including the databases PubMed, Cinhal, PsycINFO and Web of Science. The main variables were emotional intelligence skills and mindfulness practice. Data were extracted according to the following outcomes: authors, year of publication, country, study design, participants, mindfulness training intervention, tools used in data collection and main results. The following inclusion criteria were applied: peer-reviewed articles; published in English or Spanish; published between 2010 and 2020; quantitative methodology; a study population of healthcare professionals or students; the relationship with the aim of the study. The Joanna Briggs Institute criteria were followed for assessing the methodological quality of the selected studies. Three researchers were involved in the review. After the selection process, 10 studies were selected out of the 197 references initially identified. These studies revealed a positive relationship between mindfulness and emotional intelligence, particularly the capacity to regulate emotions. Furthermore, mindfulness is negatively related to emotional exhaustion. Training interventions based on mindfulness have proved to be useful in promoting emotional balance, emotional awareness, emotional acceptance, emotion recognition, expressive suppression and a reduction in emotional exhaustion. This study could serve as a basis for further research on the benefits of emotional intelligence and practicing mindfulness for the bio-psycho-social welfare of healthcare professionals.

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