Barriers and facilitators of the use of mind-body therapies by healthcare providers and clinicians to care for themselves
Abstract
Healthcare providers may experience a high level of stress, fatigue, and anxiety originating from different factors. Mind-body therapies, which include many interventions, have been proposed to alleviate these conditions. These interventions have been reported to decrease the level of stress, and the negative outcomes associated with these factors: high burnout rate, and poor quality of care for patients. Although research validating the effectiveness of healthcare providers' use of mind-body therapies to care for themselves is emerging, there is little focus on barriers and facilitators that healthcare providers encounter with these mind-body practices, thereby questioning the feasibility and sustainability of these interventions. As such, this systematic review examined the barriers preventing healthcare providers from using mind-body interventions to care for themselves and ways that it has been facilitated. Overall, 12 studies addressed the research question with a limited focus on the facilitators and barriers of the use of mind-body therapies.
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- Authors
- Mensah, S. B., & Anderson, J. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Virginia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Anderson, Joel G.
- ORCID
- Anderson, Joel G.
- Venue
- Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-05
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 124-130
- ISSN
- 1744-3881 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2047179706
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 0.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Keywords
- mind-body interventions, healthcare workers, clinician self-care, barriers and facilitators, burnout, occupational stress, fatigue, anxiety
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety, Fatigue, Health Personnel, Humans, Self Care, Stress, Psychological, Mind-Body Therapies, Resilience, Psychological
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