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An examination of immediate outcomes following a single session of mindfulness meditation
Title
An examination of immediate outcomes following a single session of mindfulness meditation.
Creator
Stiksma, Melissa, Levy, Morgan, Vernon, Laura
Date Issued
2013-04-05
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361193
Subject Headings
Meditation, Mindfulness in behavioral health
Format
Document (PDF)
Factors affecting the experience of mindfulness
Title
Factors affecting the experience of mindfulness.
Creator
Levy, Morgan, Stiksma, Melissa, Vernon, Laura
Date Issued
2013-04-05
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361115
Subject Headings
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Religiousness, Meditation
Format
Document (PDF)
A MINDFULNESS MEDITATION INTERVENTION TO DECREASE STRESS, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION AMONG MEDICAL AND PREMEDICAL STUDENTS
Title
A MINDFULNESS MEDITATION INTERVENTION TO DECREASE STRESS, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION AMONG MEDICAL AND PREMEDICAL STUDENTS.
Creator
Smith, Bridget Statler, Bloom, Jennifer, DeDonno, Michael, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology, College of Education
Abstract/Description
The challenges inherent in pursuing a medical education can leave many students at risk of experiencing stress and burnout. Premedical and medical students have been found to experience high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression (Fang et al., 2010; Niemi & Vainiomaki, 2006; Vitaliano, Russo, Carr, & Heerwagen, 1984). The sources of stress for premedical and medical students include academic obligations, the financial burden of paying for medical school, and family relationships. If...
Show moreThe challenges inherent in pursuing a medical education can leave many students at risk of experiencing stress and burnout. Premedical and medical students have been found to experience high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression (Fang et al., 2010; Niemi & Vainiomaki, 2006; Vitaliano, Russo, Carr, & Heerwagen, 1984). The sources of stress for premedical and medical students include academic obligations, the financial burden of paying for medical school, and family relationships. If excessive stress is left untreated it can result in negative health risks such as depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, and other physiological distress disorders. There are proven ways to reduce the stress levels of students, including eating well, exercise, and peer support. Mindfulness meditation is also known to be a useful method for lowering perceived stress and improve academic performance. This study investigated how participation in a 7-week mindfulness meditation intervention impacts the perceived stress, depression, and anxiety levels of premedical and medical students. Self-regulation theory (Fiske & Taylor, 1991; McClelland et al., 2018) was used as the theoretical framework for this study to indirectly discover if mindfulness meditation is a practice that can improve students’ ability to calm themselves when facing high stress situations and to focus their thoughts on a goal.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013415
Subject Headings
Medical students, Stress & Anxiety, Depression, Mindfulness--methods, Meditation
Format
Document (PDF)
effect of mindfulness meditation intervention on attention, affect, anxiety, mindfulness, and salivary cortisol in school children
Title
The effect of mindfulness meditation intervention on attention, affect, anxiety, mindfulness, and salivary cortisol in school children.
Creator
Corbett, Maria L., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
The current study utilized a quasi-experimental nonequivalent groups design to investigate whether a 5-week long Mindfulness Meditation Intervention (MMI), would impact measures of attention, positive and negative affect, state and test anxiety, mindfulness, and reactive cortisol levels in 107 school aged children. A series of reliability corrected ANCOVAs were performed on all behavioral variables. Results indicated that those in the MMI group did not differ from their cohorts on any of the...
Show moreThe current study utilized a quasi-experimental nonequivalent groups design to investigate whether a 5-week long Mindfulness Meditation Intervention (MMI), would impact measures of attention, positive and negative affect, state and test anxiety, mindfulness, and reactive cortisol levels in 107 school aged children. A series of reliability corrected ANCOVAs were performed on all behavioral variables. Results indicated that those in the MMI group did not differ from their cohorts on any of the behavioral measures. Reactive levels of salivary cortisol were also collected and assayed in a subsample of 25 participants. An ANCOVA on cortisol change scores was performed and findings did not reach statistical significance. Post-hoc power analyses revealed that this could be due to inadequate sample size. To conclude studies utilizing a MMI of longer duration or with larger sample sizes may be required in assessing the usefulness of MMIs in behavioral and physiological measures in non-clinical child populations.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3332185
Subject Headings
Mood (Psychology), Physiological aspects, Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Meditation, Therapeutic use, Stress (Psychology), Stress management
Format
Document (PDF)
The relationship between basic conditioning factors and the self-care practice of meditation in HIV-seropositive persons
Title
The relationship between basic conditioning factors and the self-care practice of meditation in HIV-seropositive persons.
Creator
Ludlow, Michael Dale., Florida Atlantic University, Freeman, Edward, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
This study was a secondary analysis of data collected by Freeman, E., Ruppenthal, B., and Flinders, R. entitled "Meditation on a Passage and Repetition of a Mantram to Enhance Self-Care of Persons with HIV Infection" (1992). Selected data were re-analyzed in light of the Self-Care Deficit Theory (Orem, 1995). Self-care consisted of daily repetition of an inspirational passage and mantram, which served as the interventions for the primary study. The primary researchers noted that ASCAS scores...
Show moreThis study was a secondary analysis of data collected by Freeman, E., Ruppenthal, B., and Flinders, R. entitled "Meditation on a Passage and Repetition of a Mantram to Enhance Self-Care of Persons with HIV Infection" (1992). Selected data were re-analyzed in light of the Self-Care Deficit Theory (Orem, 1995). Self-care consisted of daily repetition of an inspirational passage and mantram, which served as the interventions for the primary study. The primary researchers noted that ASCAS scores rose significantly after the intervention. Thus, secondary analysis focused on the relationships of the basic conditioning factors (BCFs) to the total scores on the Adult Self-Care Agency Scale (ASCAS) before and after the self-care intervention. Secondary analysis revealed that diet alone, from among the BCFs, differentiated the sample of HIV-infected or family members of infected persons according to ASCAS scores at study entry and exit.
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Date Issued
1997
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15439
Subject Headings
Self-care, Health, HIV-positive persons--Care, Meditation, HIV infections--Nursing, Quality of life
Format
Document (PDF)
neuropsychological examination of the effects of mindfulnesss meditation in elementary school children
Title
A neuropsychological examination of the effects of mindfulnesss meditation in elementary school children.
Creator
Klco, Sara Elizabeth., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Many recent studies have confirmed that mindfulness meditation has wide ranging potential to improve the mental health and well-being of adults, though few studies have explored its potential to help younger populations. In the current study, a sample of 4th and 2nd grade students was trained in the techniques of mindfulness meditation. Baseline electroencephalograms (EEGs) were taken before the training, and again after a 10 week period of daily meditation practice. Measures of attention,...
Show moreMany recent studies have confirmed that mindfulness meditation has wide ranging potential to improve the mental health and well-being of adults, though few studies have explored its potential to help younger populations. In the current study, a sample of 4th and 2nd grade students was trained in the techniques of mindfulness meditation. Baseline electroencephalograms (EEGs) were taken before the training, and again after a 10 week period of daily meditation practice. Measures of attention, creativity, affect, depression, behavioral inhibition/activation, emotion regulation, impulsive/aggressive behaviors, and social anxiety were also administered before and after the meditation practice period. Results indicate that mindfulness meditation produces increased relative left-frontal alpha activation, a brain pattern that has been associated with increased positive affect and more adaptive coping responses to aversive events. Significant post-meditation improvements in depression and creativity were also found in the experimental condition.
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Date Issued
2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2100574
Subject Headings
Education, Humanistic, Meditation, Health aspects, Medicine, Psychosomatic, Mind and body, Self-esteem in children, Neuropsychology, Children, Counseling of, Creative thinking in children
Format
Document (PDF)