Mindfulness meditation and anxiety in adolescents on an inpatient psychiatric unit.
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This study presents the impact of chaplain-provided mindfulness meditation (MM) groups on state-anxiety in adolescent inpatients on an acute psychiatric unit, an understudied topic that warrants further research given that anxiety is a demonstrated predictor of suicide attempts in adolescents and the elevated suicide risk of this population. A total of 53 adolescent patients, age 13-19, attended optional 30-minute MM groups while hospitalized for inpatient psychiatric care. State-anxiety was assessed immediately before and after each MM session, and psychiatric symptom severity upon admission was compared between patients choosing to attend MM and those who did not. State-anxiety was found to decrease significantly between pre- and post-MM upon first exposure regardless of patient age, sex, and prior experience with MM. Findings also suggest the possibility that patients experiencing symptoms of psychosis may benefit more from MM as compared to other patients. Admission symptom severity was not found to be an indicator of MM attendance. These findings suggest the possibility that MM could be an effective and relatively immediate transdiagnostic intervention to lower state anxiety in adolescents on an inpatient psychiatric unit and invite further implementation and research by staff chaplains on such units.
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Mindfulness meditation could be an effective and immediate intervention to help reduce adolescents' state anxiety on an inpatient psychiatric unit.
“Mindfulness mediation could be an effective and immediate intervention to help reduce adolescents’ state anxiety on an inpatient psychiatric unit (Blum et al., 2019).”
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- Authors
- Blum, H., Rutt, C., Nash, C., Joyce, V., & Buonopane, R.
- Affiliations
- Amherst College (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Franciscan Children’s, Brighton, MA, USA
- Corresponding author
- Blum, Harrison
- Venue
- Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-04-25
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 65-83
- ISSN
- 0885-4726 (ISSN-L)
- 1528-6916
- OpenAlex
- W2941374217
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 2.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Institutional Review Board of Franciscan Children’s
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- mindfulness meditation, state anxiety, adolescents, psychiatric inpatient care, chaplaincy, suicide risk, psychosis, transdiagnostic treatment, psychiatric hospitalization
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety, Chaplaincy Service, Hospital, Female, Hospital Units, Humans, Inpatients, Male, Treatment Outcome, Meditation, Young Adult, Mindfulness
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