Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Medical Settings

Shigaki, Cheryl L.; Glass, Bret A.; Schopp, Laura H.

doi:10.1007/s10880-006-9033-8

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“…Clinical studies of MBSR with adults include management of chronic pain, stress, anxiety, psoriasis, eating disorders, fybromyalga, substance abuse and with cancer patients (Baer 2003;Bishop 2002;Grossman et al 2004;Ivanovski and Malhi 2007;Shigaki et al 2006). MBCT was initially developed as an approach to prevent relapse in depression (Segal et al 2002;Teasdale et al 2000), though now has been adapted for use with generalized anxiety disorder (Evans et al 2007), mixed mood disorders (Ree and Craigie 2007), current depressed treatment-resistant individuals (Kenny and Williams 2007), and with cancer patients and their carers (Foley et al 2007).…”

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Mindfulness-Based Approaches with Children and Adolescents: A Preliminary Review of Current Research in an Emergent Field

Burke¹

2009

J Child Fam Stud

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Interest in applications of mindfulness-based approaches with adults has grown rapidly in recent times, and there is an expanding research base that suggests these are efficacious approaches to promoting psychological health and well-being. Interest has spread to applications of mindfulness-based approaches with children and adolescents, yet the research is still in its infancy. I aim to provide a preliminary review of the current research base of mindfulness-based approaches with children and adolescents, focusing on MBSR/MBCT models, which place the regular practice of mindfulness meditation at the core of the intervention. Overall, the current research base provides support for the feasibility of mindfulness-based interventions with children and adolescents, however there is no generalized empirical evidence of the efficacy of these interventions. For the field to advance, I suggest that research needs to shift away from feasibility studies towards large, well-designed studies with robust methodologies, and adopt standardized formats for interventions, allowing for replication and comparison studies, to develop a firm research evidence base.

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Mindfulness-Based Approaches with Children and Adolescents: A Preliminary Review of Current Research in an Emergent Field

Burke¹

2009

J Child Fam Stud

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“…S ince the introduction of mindfulness into clinical settings, a large number of studies have documented its beneficial effect on psychological distress and well-being (Grossman, Niemann, Schmidt, & Walach, 2004;Shigaki, Glass, & Schopp, 2006). As exemplified by the articles in this issue, studies are now exploring psychological constructs as mechanisms to account for these benefits (including scales to evaluate the mediating effect of mindfulness) as well as the characteristics of patients most likely to benefit from the practice.…”

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Evolving Conceptions of Mindfulness in Clinical Settings

Carmody¹

2009

J Cogn Psychother

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A number of issues important to the clinical utility of mindfulness require systematic study. These include the most parsimonious definition of mindfulness for clinical purposes, how mindfulness is best described to be most approachable to patients, and the extent to which mindfulness shares common mechanisms with other mind-body programs. The discussion includes a brief review of the transition of mindfulness from traditional into clinical settings as well as the components commonly contained within clinical descriptions of mindfulness. A model based on facility in the use of attention is proposed, and a description of mechanisms by which attentional skill may lead to the recognition of internal associational processes and account for psychological outcomes is given. Using constructs already familiar to patients, an attention-based conception may also be more accessible to patients than more elaborate descriptions and have greater utility in identifying commonalities that mindfulness training may have with other mind-body programs.

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“…The exercises of MBSR include mindful meditation, mindful breathing, mindful walking, mindful yoga, body scan and mindfulness in daily life activities. MBSR was shown beneficial to mental and physical conditions, and was used in the treatment of a wide range of disorders, such as anxiety and mood disorders, depression, chronic pain, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease [10][11][12]23], and pain in endometriosis [13,14].…”

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“…They have been shown beneficial to a wide range of disorders, including anxiety and mood disorders, depression, chronic pain, cancer, cardiovascular disease [10][11][12]. Meditation was used to cope with pain in endometriosis [13,14]; however, to our knowledge, there is no research showing the application of meditation to adenomyosis.…”

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Meditation-Based Intervention as a Complementary Treatment for Adenomyosis: A Case Report

Kung

et al. 2016

IJCAM

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Objective: Adenomyosis is a common benign gynecological condition in premenopausal women, with symptoms such as menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea, greatly affecting women's health and quality of life. The treatment options of adenomyosis are hysterectomy, anti-inflammatory, hormone medications and conservative surgeries. However, they might be either temporary symptom control, or side effects, or compromised fertility, or no fertility. Meditationbased intervention has been shown beneficial to various diseases. The patient was a 45-year-old Taiwanese woman who was diagnosed with adenomyosis, after experiencing severe symptoms, including menorrhagia and dysmenorrheal. The intervention was to identify her greatest stressor firstly and then let go of it to reduce the greatest portion of the stress; next, to do mantra meditation, Six Character Great Bright Mantra, and mindfulness meditation intensively to keep reducing stress, while taking medicine of anti-inflammatory, hemostatic drugs, iron and vitamin B as necessary. She was an experienced meditation practitioner of mantra and mindfulness. The result was that serum cancer antigen 125 (CA 125), menstrual pain and bleeding reduced considerably within 1.5 months. The symptoms were alleviated successfully. Her symptoms of adenomyosis intensified at her age of 50. She did meditation-based intervention and alleviated symptoms successfully again. The intervention enabled her to pass into menopause well without hysterectomy or any conservative operation or hormone medications. Conclusions:The application of meditation-based intervention as a complementary therapy in patients with adenomyosis might facilitate the treatment process and improve results. This merits further investigation in clinical studies with larger sample sizes.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Medical Settings

Cited by 56 publications

References 39 publications

Mindfulness-Based Approaches with Children and Adolescents: A Preliminary Review of Current Research in an Emergent Field

Mindfulness-Based Approaches with Children and Adolescents: A Preliminary Review of Current Research in an Emergent Field

Evolving Conceptions of Mindfulness in Clinical Settings

Meditation-Based Intervention as a Complementary Treatment for Adenomyosis: A Case Report

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