CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 233Mindfulness and Compassion InterventionsStress Responses and CortisolHealth, psychology, and well-being

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 93 of the 95 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Cortisol as a marker for improvement in mindfulness-based stress reduction

Matousek, Rose H., Dobkin, Patricia L., Pruessner, Jens·2010·Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
DOI 10.1016/j.ctcp.2009.06.004
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

While much attention has been devoted to examining the beneficial effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs on patients' ability to cope with various chronic medical conditions, most studies have relied on self-report measures of improvement. Given that these measures may not accurately reflect physiological conditions, there is a need for an objective marker of improvement in research evaluating the beneficial effects of stress management programs. Cortisol is the major stress hormone in the human organism and as such is a promising candidate measure in the study of the effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs. In conjunction with other biological measures, the use of cortisol levels as a physiological marker of stress may be useful to validate self-reported benefits attributed to this program. In the current manuscript, we review the available literature on the role of cortisol as a physiological marker for improvement with regards to mindfulness practice, and make recommendations for future study designs.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.ctcp.2009.06.004

Cites

93 of 93 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Matousek RH, Dobkin PL. Exploring psychosocial and hormonal benefits derived from participation in a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program for survivors of breast cancer. Poster session presented at: CAPO 2009 annual conference of the Canadian association of psychosocial oncology. Vancouver, Canada; 2009, Apr 1–4.
  2. Averill, 1968, Psychophysiological assessment: rationale and problems, vol. 1
  3. Bevan AJW, Young PM, Wellby ML, Nenadovic P, Dickins JA. Proceedings of the Endocrine Society of Australia, vol. 19; 1976. p. 59.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 233

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Matousek, R. H., Dobkin, P. L., & Pruessner, J.
Affiliations
McGill University (CA)
Corresponding author
Dobkin, Patricia L.
ORCID
Venue
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-02
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
13-19
ISSN
1744-3881 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.ctcp.2009.06.004
OpenAlex
W2069307582
Cited by
233
References
95
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 25 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 14
FWCI
11.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, psychology, and well-being
Keywords
cortisol, mindfulness-based stress reduction, stress management, mindfulness practice, self-reported outcomes, chronic disease, stress hormones, outcome measurement
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Female, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Male, Relaxation Therapy, Stress, Psychological, Biomarkers, Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review