Rumination and PTSD symptoms among trauma-exposed Latinos in primary care: is mindful attention helpful?
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The present investigation examined the moderating role of mindful attention in the relation between rumination and posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms (i.e., re-experiencing, avoidance, arousal, and total PTSD symptoms) among trauma-exposed Latinos in a primary care medical setting. It was hypothesized that mindful attention would moderate, or lessen, the relation between rumination and all facets of PTS, even after controlling for clinically relevant covariates. Participants included 182 trauma-exposed adult Latinos (89.0% female; M age = 37.8, SD = 10.6% and 95.1% reported Spanish as their first language) attending a community-based integrated healthcare clinic in the Southwestern United States. Mindful attention was a significant moderator of relations between rumination and all PTS facets. Specifically, rumination and PTSD symptoms were significantly related yet only in the context of low (vs. high) levels of mindful attention. Mindfulness-based skills may offer incremental value to established treatment protocols for traumatic stress, especially when high levels of rumination are present. Rumination may also serve to identify those who are at greatest risk for developing PTSD after trauma exposure and, therefore, most likely to benefit from mindfulness-based strategies.
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Greater mindful attention may buffer the adverse effects of rumination on PTSD symptoms among trauma-exposed Latinos.
“one study found that greater levels of mindful attention may buffer the adverse effects of greater levels of rumination on posttraumatic stress symptoms among trauma-exposed Latinos (Viana et al., 2017)”
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- Authors
- Viana, A. G., Paulus, D. J., Garza, M., Lemaire, C., Bakhshaie, J., Cardoso, J. B., Ochoa-Perez, M., Valdivieso, J., & Zvolensky, M. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Houston (US)
- Legacy Community Health Services (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Viana, Andres G.
- Zvolensky, Michael J.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Psychiatry Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-12
- Volume
- 258
- Pages
- 244-249
- ISSN
- 0165-1781 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC12826605
- OpenAlex
- W2750312948
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 2.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychiatry Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH076629)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (K23AT012364)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- rumination, post-traumatic stress disorder, mindful attention, mindfulness, trauma exposure, Hispanic Americans, primary care, re-experiencing, avoidance, hyperarousal, moderated mediation, integrated care
- MeSH terms
- Rumination, Cognitive, Adult, Arousal, Attention, Female, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Male, Primary Health Care, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Mindfulness
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