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Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Medical and Premedical Students
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The inability to cope successfully with the enormous stress of medical education may lead to a cascade of consequences at both a personal and professional level. The present study examined the short-term effects of an 8-week meditation-based stress reduction intervention on premedical and medical students using a well-controlled statistical design. Findings indicate that participation in the intervention can effectively (1) reduce self-reported state and trait anxiety, (2) reduce reports of overall psychological distress including depression, (3) increase scores on overall empathy levels, and (4) increase scores on a measure of spiritual experiences assessed at termination of intervention. These results (5) replicated in the wait-list control group, (6) held across different experiments, and (7) were observed during the exam period. Future research should address potential long-term effects of mindfulness training for medical and premedical students.
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“Overall, these studies found that MBSR reduces self-reported levels of anxiety (Shapiro, Schwartz, & Bonner, 1998; Anderson, Lau, Segal, & Bishop, 2007)”
From Effects of mindfulness on psychological health: A review of empirical studies (2011) · cites this paper as Shapiro, Schwartz, & Bonner, 1998
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“sense of spirituality (Astin, 1997; Shapiro et al., 1998)”
From Effects of mindfulness on psychological health: A review of empirical studies (2011) · cites this paper as Shapiro et al., 1998
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“empathy (Shapiro et al., 1998)”
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“well-being (Shapiro et al., 1998; Ortner et al., 2007; Carmody and Baer, 2008)”
From Mindfulness Training Alters Emotional Memory Recall Compared to Active Controls: Support for an Emotional Information Processing Model of Mindfulness (2012) · cites this paper as Shapiro et al., 1998
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“empathy (Shapiro et al., 1998; Krasner et al., 2009)”
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“Mindfulness-based interventions have been found to be beneficial for many forms of psychological distress, including anxiety (Kabat-Zinn et al., 1992), depression”
From Mechanisms of action in the inverse relationship between mindfulness and psychological distress (2008) · cites this paper as Shapiro et al., 1998
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“Research findings have shown decreased stress [13], anxiety [14], depression [15], fatigue, anger and.stress-related cortisol [16] after exposure to various stress-reduction mindfulness-based training programs in comparison to a control group.”
From Association of mindfulness to resilience, anxiety, and depressive symptoms after spinal cord injury-a correlational study (2020) · cites this paper as [16]
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“Crucially, the MBSR protocol appears to be effective in handling stressful events [59,60], e.g., it helps people to manage post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms [61] or cope with cancer [62,63,64].”
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“Other areas with initial evidence for the usefulness of mindfulness include eating disorders,24 obsessive-compulsive disorder,25 hypochondriasis,26 somatisation disorders (especially irritable bowel syndrome),27 autism-spectrum disorders (in adults)28 and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.29”
From Mindfulness in psychiatry - Where are we now? (2016) · cites this paper as [25]
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“Shapiro et al. (1998) found that greater meditation compliance led to decreased anxiety, which led to greater empathy.”
From A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Meditation on Empathy, Compassion, and Prosocial Behaviors (2018) · cites this paper as Shapiro et al., 1998
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shapiro, S. L., Schwartz, G. E., & Bonner, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- ORCID
- Schwartz, Gary E.
- Venue
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine
- Published
- 1998-12
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 581-599
- ISSN
- 0160-7715 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3521
- OpenAlex
- W2146593346
- Cited by
- 1,493
- References
- 48
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- FWCI
- 8.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Keywords
- mindfulness-based stress reduction, medical students, premedical students, medical education stress, meditation, anxiety, depression, psychological distress, empathy, spiritual experience, exam stress
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Demography, Education, Medical, Female, Humans, Male, Models, Psychological, Physician-Patient Relations, Psychological Tests, Spiritualism, Stress, Psychological, Students, Medical, Program Evaluation, Multivariate Analysis, Meditation
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