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Mindfulness-based programmes and ‘bigger than self’ issues: protocol for a scoping review

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Callen-Davies, Robert John, Bristow, Jamie, Gazder, Taranah, Griffith, Gemma M, Noorani, Yasmin, Crane, Rebecca Susan·2023·BMJ Open
DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067819PMC PMC10030572
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Introduction: Mindfulness-based programmes (MBPs) have an established, growing evidence base as interventions to optimise health, well-being and performance of individual participants. Emerging evidence suggests that MBPs also enhance prosociality, encouraging individuals to contribute to positive social change. This study focuses on the potential of MBPs to facilitate development of participants’ inner resources that support prosocial shifts. The review seeks to detect shifts in MBP benefit from individual toward ‘bigger than self’, informing and empowering individual and collective responses to complex societal and global issues. The review aims to map current literature on MBPs and social change, into a descriptive overview with commentary on quality, trends, theoretical models and gaps, and on how training in MBPs potentially enables individual and collective responses to societal and global issues. Recommendations for future directions for researchers seeking to advance this evidence base, and practitioners developing innovative MBPs for this purpose will be provided. Methods and analysis: A scoping review of peer-reviewed literature will be undertaken and reported on according to the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidance. Systematic searches of four scientific databases will be undertaken to identify potentially eligible articles published from all time to current date. Data will be extracted using an extraction template and analysed descriptively using narrative synthesis. Ethics and dissemination: This scoping review involves no human participants, so ethics is not required. Findings will be shared through professional networks, conference presentations and journal publication.

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Authors
Callen-Davies, R. J., Bristow, J., Gazder, T., Griffith, G. M., Noorani, Y., & Crane, R. S.
Affiliations
  • Bangor University (GB)
  • Sheffield City Council (GB)
Corresponding author
Callen-Davies, Robert John
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Venue
BMJ Open
Publisher
BMJ
Published
2023-03
Volume
13
Issue
3
Pages
e067819
ISSN
2044-6055 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067819
PMC
PMC10030572
OpenAlex
W4324387175
Cited by
6
References
15
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2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2
FWCI
1.75
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journal article
Language
en
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  • BMJ Open (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HighWire Press Open Archive (acceptedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Bangor University Research Portal (Bangor University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Welsh Government (N/A)
  • Bangor University (82196)
  • KESS (82196)
  • European Social Fund (N/A)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, psychology, and well-being
Keywords
prosocial behavior, social change, collective action, social problems, global challenges, internal resources, well-being, mindfulness-based interventions
MeSH terms
Academies and Institutes, Scoping Reviews As Topic, Scoping Reviews as Topic, Humans, Peer Review, Research Design, Review Literature as Topic, Databases, Factual, Narration, Mindfulness

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