How does mindfulness training improve moral cognition: A theoretical and experimental framework for the study of embodied ethics

Sevinc, Günes; Lazar, Sara W.

doi:10.31231/osf.io/cd7qv

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“…49,50 Cultivating mindfulness-based skills is important in the process of moral discernment and helps clinicians address moral adversity and develop mediation pathways for emotional competency, cognitive function, and ethical action. 15,[49][50][51][52] Cultivating mindful awareness and cognitive skills aimed at recognizing, analyzing, and responding to ethical challenges and at fostering moral resilience holds promise for nursing ethics education. 53…”

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Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy: Equipping Nurses to Address Ethical Challenges

Rushton

Reller²,

Skarupski

et al. 2021

American Journal of Critical Care

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Background Ethical challenges in clinical practice significantly affect frontline nurses, leading to moral distress, burnout, and job dissatisfaction, which can undermine safety, quality, and compassionate care. Objectives To examine the impact of a longitudinal, experiential educational curriculum to enhance nurses’ skills in mindfulness, resilience, confidence, and competence to confront ethical challenges in clinical practice. Methods A prospective repeated-measures study was conducted before and after a curricular intervention at 2 hospitals in a large academic medical system. Intervention participants (192) and comparison participants (223) completed study instruments to assess the objectives. Results Mindfulness, ethical confidence, ethical competence, work engagement, and resilience increased significantly after the intervention. Resilience and mindfulness were positively correlated with moral competence and work engagement. As resilience and mindfulness improved, turnover intentions and burnout (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization) decreased. After the intervention, nurses reported significantly improved symptoms of depression and anger. The intervention was effective for intensive care unit and non–intensive care unit nurses (exception: emotional exhaustion) and for nurses with different years of experience (exception: turnover intentions). Conclusions Use of experiential discovery learning practices and high-fidelity simulation seems feasible and effective for enhancing nurses’ skills in addressing moral adversity in clinical practice by cultivating the components of moral resilience, which contributes to a healthy work environment, improved retention, and enhanced patient care.

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Section: Mindfulnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy: Equipping Nurses to Address Ethical Challenges

Rushton

Reller²,

Skarupski

et al. 2021

American Journal of Critical Care

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“…In particular, the authors postulate a theory which highlights the interrelation between the ethical beliefs of the individual and his relationship to the environment; cultivating internal and external awareness seems to arouse a process of ethics embodied in moral cognition. In fact, the changes reported by literature in MBI participants involve a meta-awareness and a different perspective of the self, probably influencing the processing of morally-relevant situations and stimuli thus encouraging moral action (Sevinc and Lazar, 2019 ). However, HCPs often suffer from psychological distress and therefore experience a varied spectrum of symptoms related to this condition.…”

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Mindfulness, Compassion, and Self-Compassion Among Health Care Professionals: What's New? A Systematic Review

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Health care professionals (HCPs) are a population at risk for high levels of burnout and compassion fatigue. The aim of the present systematic review was to give an overview on recent literature about mindfulness and compassion characteristics of HCPs, while exploring the effectiveness of techniques, involving the two aspects, such as MBSR or mindfulness intervention and compassion fatigue-related programs. A search of databases, including PubMed and PsycINFO, was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and the methodological quality for this systematic review was appraised using AMSTAR-2 (A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews-2). The number of articles that met the inclusion criteria was 58 (4 RCTs, 24 studies with pre-post measurements, 12 cross-sectional studies, 11 cohort studies and 7 qualitative studies). MBSR intervention was effective at improving, and maintaining, mindfulness and self-compassion levels and to improve burnout, depression, anxiety, stress. The most frequently employed interventional strategies were mindfulness-related trainings that were effective at improving mindfulness and self-compassion, but not compassion fatigue, levels. Compassion-related interventions have been shown to improve self-compassion, mindfulness and interpersonal conflict levels. Mindfulness was effective at improving negative affect and compassion fatigue, while compassion satisfaction may be related to cultivation of positive affect. This systematic review summarized the evidence regarding mindfulness-and compassion-related qualities of HCPs as well as potential effects of MBSR, mindfulness-related and compassion-related interventions on professionals' psychological variables like mindfulness, self-compassion and quality of life. Combining structured mindfulness and compassion cultivation trainings may enhance the effects of interventions, limit the variability of intervention protocols and improve data comparability of future research.

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“…Evidence showed that mindfulness has a close relationship with social cognition. For example, research revealed that mindfulness training improved various social cognitive abilities such as social contact (Lindsay et al, 2019), affective social cognition and social functioning (Mediavilla et al, 2021), mental state attribution and empathic concern (Tan et al, 2014), cognitive empathy (Winning & Boag, 2015), and moral cognition (Sevinc & Lazar, 2019). As a result, mindfulness training is shown to be an effective way to improve social cognition.…”

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The impact of mindfulness training on supportive communication, emotional intelligence, and human caring among nursing students

Kou

Chen

et al. 2022

Perspect Psychiatric Care

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Purpose: This study was aimed to investigate the impact of mindfulness training on supportive communication and human caring ability among nursing students. Design and Methods: Sixty nursing students were randomly divided into the mindfulness group who accepted 8-week mindfulness training and the control group who attended two 2-h lectures about mindfulness in 8 weeks. All of them completed the Supporting Communication Scale (SCS), Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS), and Caring Ability Inventory (CAI) before training (T1), after it (T2), and at 3-month follow-up (T3).Findings: The mindfulness group showed higher scores on SCS, EIS, and CAI than the control group at both T2 and T3, and improvements in emotional intelligence partially mediated the training effects on supportive communication.Practice Implications: Mindfulness training could be applied to improve the abilities of communication and human caring during nursing education.

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How does mindfulness training improve moral cognition: A theoretical and experimental framework for the study of embodied ethics

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy: Equipping Nurses to Address Ethical Challenges

Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy: Equipping Nurses to Address Ethical Challenges

Mindfulness, Compassion, and Self-Compassion Among Health Care Professionals: What's New? A Systematic Review

The impact of mindfulness training on supportive communication, emotional intelligence, and human caring among nursing students

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