Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Delivered to Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Positive Patients in Iran

SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad; Jam, Sara; Foroughi, Maryam; Imani, AmirHossein; Mohraz, Minoo; Djavid, Gholamreza Esmaeeli; Black, David S.

doi:10.1097/psy.0b013e31825abfaa

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“…The authors did not assess mindfulness however, so it isn’t clear whether the differences in CD4 change between groups were due to changes in mindfulness. SeyedAlinaghi and colleagues (SeyedAlinaghi et al, 2012) conducted a randomized trial of MBSR compared to an education control condition in people with HIV. Among participants who completed at least 75% of the sessions, participants in the MBSR group showed improvements in physical and psychological symptoms relative to an education control condition.…”

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Dispositional mindfulness in people with HIV: Associations with psychological and physical health

Moskowitz

Duncan

Moran

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Personality and Individual Differences

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We used a Stress and Coping model to examine the association of dispositional mindfulness, defined as the tendency to intentionally bring nonjudgmental attention and awareness to one’s experience in the present moment, with psychological and physical health in adults with HIV. Data were collected at baseline of a randomized controlled trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Four facets of mindfulness (acting with attention/awareness, nonjudging of inner experience, observing, and describing) were examined as correlates of appraisal, positive and negative affect, coping, and indicators of psychological well-being and physical health. We found that mindfulness was inversely related to depression, stress appraisal, and negative affect, and positively related to positive affect. Mindfulness was also inversely related to escape/avoidance and self-blame forms of coping. Mediational analyses indicate that perceived stress and negative affect were the most consistent mediators of the association of mindfulness and psychological well-being. The findings from this paper contribute to a growing understanding of the potential adaptive role of mindfulness in people living with the stress of serious illness.

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Section: Mindfulness and Hivmentioning

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Dispositional mindfulness in people with HIV: Associations with psychological and physical health

Moskowitz

Duncan

Moran

et al. 2015

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…Over the last decade, MBIs have received significant public and empirical attention. Particularly, extant research has shed light on the therapeutic benefits of MBIs toward psychological and physical health ailments, including addiction (Black, 2014; Garland, Manusov, et al, 2014), learning disabilities (Black, Milam, & Sussman, 2009), distress in persons with chronic illness (Bohlmeijer, Prenger, Taal, & Cuijpers, 2010) and healthy persons (Chiesa & Serretti, 2009), somatic problems (De Vibe, Bjørndal, Tipton, Hammerstrøm, & Kowalski, 2012), obesity-related behaviors (O’Reilly, Cook, Spruijt-Metz, & Black, 2014), and immune function in people living with HIV (SeyedAlinaghi et al, 2012). …”

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The Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS): A process measure for evaluating mindfulness-based interventions

Black

Garland

2016

Personality and Individual Differences

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Objective Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) include the application of meditation and mind-body practices used to promote mindful awareness in daily life. Operationalizing the construct of mindfulness is important in order to determine mechanisms of therapeutic change elicited by mindfulness practice. In addition to existing state and trait measures of mindfulness, process measures are needed to assess the ways in which individuals apply mindfulness in the context of their practice. Method This report details three independent studies (qualitative interview, N = 8; scale validation, N = 134; and replication study, N = 180) and the mixed qualitative-quantitative methodology used to develop and validate the Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS), a 15-item process measure designed to quantify how mindfulness practitioners actively use mindfulness to remediate psychological suffering in their daily lives. Results In Study 1, cognitive interviewing yielded a readily comprehensible and accessible scale of 15 items. In Study 2, exploratory factor analysis derived a potential three-factor solution: decentering, positive emotion regulation, and negative emotion regulation. In Study 3, confirmatory factor analysis verified better model fit with the three-factor structure over the one-factor structure. Conclusions AMPS functions as a measure to quantify the application of mindfulness and processes of change in the context of MBIs and general mindfulness practice.

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“…Three RCTs show that mindfulness interventions can buffer declines in (or can increase) CD4+ T lymphocyte counts in stressed HIV+ adults at posttreatment, and up to 9-months follow-up (Creswell et al 2009, Gonzalez-Garcia et al 2013, SeyedAlinaghi et al 2012.…”

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Mindfulness Interventions

Creswell

2017

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Mindfulness interventions aim to foster greater attention to and awareness of present moment experience. There has been a dramatic increase in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of mindfulness interventions over the past two decades. This article evaluates the growing evidence of mindfulness intervention RCTs by reviewing and discussing (a) the effects of mindfulness interventions on health, cognitive, affective, and interpersonal outcomes; (b) evidence-based applications of mindfulness interventions to new settings and populations (e.g., the workplace, military, schools); (c) psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness interventions; (d) mindfulness intervention dosing considerations; and (e) potential risks of mindfulness interventions. Methodologically rigorous RCTs have demonstrated that mindfulness interventions improve outcomes in multiple domains (e.g., chronic pain, depression relapse, addiction). Discussion focuses on opportunities and challenges for mindfulness intervention research and on community applications.

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Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Delivered to Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Positive Patients in Iran

Cited by 72 publications

References 42 publications

Dispositional mindfulness in people with HIV: Associations with psychological and physical health

Dispositional mindfulness in people with HIV: Associations with psychological and physical health

The Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS): A process measure for evaluating mindfulness-based interventions

Mindfulness Interventions

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