Waking up to the problem of sleep: can mindfulness help? A review of theory and evidence for the effects of mindfulness for sleep

Shallcross, Amanda J.; Visvanathan, Pallavi D.; Sperber, Sarah H; Duberstein, Zoe T.

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.10.005

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“…Each maladaptive coping strategy reinforces each other and creates difficulties for maintaining awareness of immediate experience ( John and Srivastava, 1999 ), which may attenuate or even offset the positive impact of trait mindfulness on sleep quality. Another explanation might be that, compared with low-neurotic individuals, individuals with high neuroticism tend to pay more attention to negative stimuli, further exacerbating the cognitive and behavioral vulnerabilities associated with poor sleep and preventing attentional resources from being allocated to mindful awareness and emotion regulation processes ( William and Moroz, 2009 ; Harvey et al, 2014 ; Shallcross et al, 2019 ).…”

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“…A survey shows that from 18.7 to 21.4% of college students in China have sleep problems ( Zhang et al, 2019 ), which manifest as falling asleep difficultly, low sleep efficiency, and severe effect on the study and life the next day. The high incidence of poor sleep and associated negative health consequences suggest the need for effective behavioral sleep interventions and a better understanding of the processes and mechanisms that affect the sleep quality of college students ( Semplonius and Willoughby, 2018 ; Shallcross et al, 2019 ).…”

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“…The model proposed that the ability to accurately observe one’s internal and external experience may allow for more flexible responses to sleep difficulty by allowing the individual to disengage from their daily concerns and strivings. Shallcross et al (2019) further offered an integrative model of sleep disturbance whereby key risk factors for compromised sleep quality and quantity are targeted through mindfulness practices.…”

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“…Our previous regression study showed that individuals with more emotional stability (meaning lower neuroticism) responded more favorably to the short-term mindfulness training in improving creative performance, whereas higher-neuroticism individuals failed to improve ( Ding et al, 2015 ). In addition, according to the mindfulness intervention integrative model of sleep disturbance ( Shallcross et al, 2019 ), adolescents with high level of neuroticism tend to pay more attention to negative stimuli ( John and Srivastava, 1999 ), which may contribute to the maintenance of sleep disturbance by directing selective attention toward internal/external sleep-related threat cues, such as rumination, distorted perceptions, negative thoughts, and/or beliefs about sleeplessness. In contrast, for adolescents with low level of neuroticism, their attentional control should flexibly enable them to disengage more from negative perceived bias of sleep quality ( William and Moroz, 2009 ; Harvey et al, 2014 ).…”

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Relationship Between Trait Mindfulness and Sleep Quality in College Students: A Conditional Process Model

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Sleep quality can affect the physical and mental health, as well as the personal development of college students. Mindfulness practices are known to ameliorate sleep disorder and improve sleep quality. Trait mindfulness, an innate capacity often enhanced by mindfulness training, has been shown to relate to better sleep quality and different aspects of psychological well-being. However, how individual difference factors such as trait mindfulness relate to sleep quality remains largely unclear, which limits the optimization and further application of mindfulness-based intervention schemes targeting the improvement of sleep quality. In this study, we aimed to investigate how negative emotions and neuroticism may influence the relationship between trait mindfulness and sleep quality. A conditional process model was built to examine these relationships in 1,423 Chinese young adults. Specifically, the conditional process model was constructed with trait mindfulness as the independent variable, sleep quality as the dependent variable, negative emotions as the mediating variable, and neuroticism as the moderating variable. Our results showed that negative emotions mediated the link between mindfulness and sleep quality and that neuroticism had a moderating effect on the relationship between mindfulness and sleep quality. Together, these findings suggested a potential mechanism of how trait mindfulness influences sleep quality, provided a therapeutic target for which mindfulness-based interventions may act upon to improve sleep quality, and offered a basis for prediction of different intervention effects among individuals.

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“…On the other hand, signi cant sleep improvement was only observed in MBCT but not in HQCT. Perhaps merely the core principles of mindfulness, involving experiential awareness, attentional control, and acceptance, can directly target different vulnerabilities associated with sleep disturbances [61].…”

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A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Comparative Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Health Qigong-Based Cognitive Therapy Among Chinese People With Mood Disorders

Chan

Chao

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Background: The goal of this study was to investigate treatment outcome and related intervention processes of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) versus health qigong-based cognitive therapy (HQCT) versus waitlist control (WC) among individuals with mood disorders.Methods: A total of 187 individuals with mood disorders were randomized and allocated into MBCT, HQCT, or WC groups. All participants were assessed at three time points with regard to mood symptoms, physical and mental health status, perceived stress, sleep quality, and self-efficacy. Linear mixed models analysis was used to test the individual growth model by studying the longitudinal data.Results: MBCT and HQCT both produced greater improvements on most outcome measures as compared with WC. Relatively, more reductions of mood symptoms were observed in the HQCT group as compared with the MBCT group. HQCT is more conducive to physical health status whereas MBCT has more favorable mental health outcomes. Individual growth curve models indicated that alternations in perceived stress was the common predictor of mood changes in both intervention groups. Conclusions: The predominant emphasis on physical health in HQCT makes it more acceptable and effective than MBCT as applied in Chinese individuals with mood disorders. The influence of Chinese culture is discussed. Trial registration: HKU Clinical Trials Registry. Identifier: HKUCTR-2558. Registered 21st Nov 2018.

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A brief mindfulness‐based intervention, sleep quality, sleep duration, and fatigue among nurses: A randomized controlled trial

Al‐Hammouri,

Rababah

2024

J Clin Psychol

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AimsThe purpose of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of a mindfulness‐based intervention in improving sleep duration, sleep quality, and fatigue among Jordanian nurses.Design and MethodsA randomized controlled trial was used to conduct this study. Data from 123 nurses (60 nurses in the interventional group and 63 nurses in the control group) were collected and analyzed. The primary outcome measures were compared between the intervention and control groups using repeated measure MANOVA to assess changes in sleep duration, sleep quality, and fatigue over time.ResultsThe results showed that there was a statistically significant multivariate effect of the intervention on the linear combination of the dependent variables (sleep duration, sleep quality, and fatigue) (V = 0.23, F (3, 119) = 12.02, p < .001) with Partial η2 of 0.23. Follow‐up analysis showed that the intervention group had lower sleep disturbances (Mean difference = −6.53, CI = −7.79 to −5.26) and less fatigue (Mean difference = −13.36, CI = −17.24 to −9.47) than the control group.ConclusionsThe current study showed that the mindfulness‐based intervention effectively addresses sleep quality and fatigue in nurses, which in turn is expected to positively impact the health care system.Clinical RelevanceMindfulness‐based interventions effectively address sleep quality and fatigue associated with nurses' job performance and outcomes. Implementing brief mindfulness‐based interventions is crucial as they can be self‐implemented and fit into nurses' busy schedules.

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Waking up to the problem of sleep: can mindfulness help? A review of theory and evidence for the effects of mindfulness for sleep

Cited by 53 publications

References 36 publications

Relationship Between Trait Mindfulness and Sleep Quality in College Students: A Conditional Process Model

Relationship Between Trait Mindfulness and Sleep Quality in College Students: A Conditional Process Model

A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Comparative Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Health Qigong-Based Cognitive Therapy Among Chinese People With Mood Disorders

A brief mindfulness‐based intervention, sleep quality, sleep duration, and fatigue among nurses: A randomized controlled trial

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