Mindfulness, qigong and their impact on health Mindfulness or full attention traces its origins to Tibetan Buddhism, and constitutes a form of meditation focused on breathing and a form of body scan which significantly impacts on the strengthening of health and the decreasing of disease symptoms. Qigong is an ancient Chinese system of Taoist origin that promotes health maintenance, healing and increase in vitality, based on respiration, posture and movement. In the West, more attention has been paid to the mindfulness tradition than to the qigong. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the combination of both millenary techniques may have a greater impact on and benefit to health. They both correlate, base their techniques on meditation, and their combination may prove beneficial to reduce stress and promote well-being.

Covid-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on mental health, including stress. The goal of our study was to design and psychometrically validate the Stress Scale for Transmissible Diseases (APA scale). The discriminative item analysis test allowed the elimination of four items, leaving the final test with 10 items. Likewise, the convergent validity using the Social Anxiety Questionnaire (SAQ) was r= .377. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the two-component structure: general stress and stress in the face of Covid-19. Multivariate correlations between items were obtained using the fit indices according to the expected model. Reliability indices were good (Cronbach's α= .841 and McDonald's ω= .848) and percentile norms were established by sex with a sample of 1,000 university students, with 28% of women and 22.9% of men having a high level of stress in the face of transmissible diseases. These results of validity and reliability of the APA scale show its usefulness in assessing stress in the face of transmissible diseases.

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