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Changes in spirituality partly explain health-related quality of life outcomes after Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is a secular behavioral medicine program that has roots in meditative spiritual practices. Thus, spirituality may partly explain Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction outcomes. Participants (N = 279; M (SD) age = 45(12); 75% women) completed an online survey before and after an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesis that, following Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, the relationship between enhanced mindfulness and improved health-related quality of life is mediated by increased daily spiritual experiences. Changes in both spirituality and mindfulness were significantly related to improvement in mental health. Although the initial mediation hypothesis was not supported, an alternate model suggested that enhanced mindfulness partly mediated the association between increased daily spiritual experiences and improved mental health-related quality of life (indirect effect: β = 0.07, P = 0.017). Effects on physical health-related quality of life were not significant. Findings suggest a novel mechanism by which increased daily spiritual experiences following Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction may partially explain improved mental health as a function of greater mindfulness.
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“MBSR has been shown to increase spiritual wellbeing, which in turn led to increased mental health-related quality of life (Greeson et al., 2011), decreased depression symptoms (Greeson et al, 2015), and decreased distress and medical symptoms (Carmody et al., 2008).”
From Who Benefits Most from a Brief Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Anxiety During Stereotactic Breast Biopsy: the Moderating Effect of Trait Mindfulness, Spiritual Well-being, and Distress Tolerance (2021) · cites this paper as Greeson et al., 2011
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“MBSR has been shown to increase spiritual wellbeing, which in turn led to increased mental health-related quality of life (Greeson et al., 2011), decreased depression symptoms (Greeson et al, 2015), and decreased distress and medical symptoms (Carmody et al., 2008).”
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“Further, prior analyses from the present study found that the CAMS-R was sensitive to change following 8 weeks of mindfulness meditation training [24, 25].”
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“Mindfulness-based interventions can increase dispositional mindfulness (Bränström et al., 2010; Carmody et al., 2009; Greeson et al., 2011; Nyklíček et al., 2008)”
From Dispositional Mindfulness Uncouples Physiological and Emotional Reactivity to a Laboratory Stressor and Emotional Reactivity to Executive Functioning Lapses in Daily Life (2016) · cites this paper as Greeson et al., 2011
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Metadata
- Authors
- Greeson, J. M., Webber, D. M., Smoski, M. J., Brantley, J. G., Ekblad, A. G., Suarez, E. C., & Wolever, R. Q.
- Affiliations
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Greeson, Jeffrey M.
- Venue
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine
- Published
- 2011-03-01
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 508-518
- ISSN
- 0160-7715 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3521
- PMC
- PMC3151546
- OpenAlex
- W2028933237
- Cited by
- 159
- References
- 65
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- FWCI
- 12.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Rowan Digitals Works (Rowan University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (K23MH087754)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (K99AT004945)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
- Keywords
- mindfulness-based stress reduction, spirituality, daily spiritual experiences, mindfulness, health-related quality of life, mental health, mediation, meditation, behavioral medicine
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Female, Health Surveys, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Models, Psychological, Quality of Life, Stress, Psychological, Meditation, Spirituality
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