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- 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
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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.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013415
- Subject Headings
- Medical students, Stress & Anxiety, Depression, Mindfulness--methods, Meditation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Patterns of stress reactivity to a common stressor in school-aged children: do differences in temperament, anxiety, and affect drive HPA habituation?.
- Creator
- Corbett, Maria L., McGruder, Tami, Gilkes, Crystal, Jones, Nancy Aaron, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361920
- Subject Headings
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, Stress, Temperament in children, Anxiety in children
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE EFFECTS OF MINDFULNESS TRAINING ON BDNF LEVELS, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND STRESS LEVELS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS.
- Creator
- Bosso, Kathryn B., Brigman, Greg, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Counselor Education, College of Education
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this randomized control study was to examine the effects of the use of a mindfulness smartphone app on student self-reported levels of depression, anxiety, and stress, and serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). The sample included college students enrolled in courses at a university in South Florida. Forty-four students were randomly allocated to either the mindfulness app group (n = 22) or the control group (n = 22). Participants in the mindfulness app group...
Show moreThe purpose of this randomized control study was to examine the effects of the use of a mindfulness smartphone app on student self-reported levels of depression, anxiety, and stress, and serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). The sample included college students enrolled in courses at a university in South Florida. Forty-four students were randomly allocated to either the mindfulness app group (n = 22) or the control group (n = 22). Participants in the mindfulness app group were instructed to complete a guided meditation on the app for 10 minutes per day for 5 weeks. Participants in the control group were offered the intervention after the 5-week protocol ended. A pretest-posttest design was used to investigate the effects of the mindfulness app intervention on self-reported levels of depression, anxiety, and stress, in addition to serum level BDNF.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013452
- Subject Headings
- College students, Mindfulness (Psychology), Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, Depression, Anxiety, Stress
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Effects of adolescent stress on depressive- and anxiety-like behaviors and hippocampal mossy fibre-CA3 remodeling in the novelty-seeking phenotype: implications for epigenetic regulation of the BDNF gene.
- Creator
- Oztan, Ozge., Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Science
- Abstract/Description
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Experimentally naive rats show variance in their locomotor reactivity to novelty, some displaying higher (HR) while others displaying lower (LR) reactivity, associated with vulnerability to stress. LRHR phenotype is proposed as an antecedent to the development of stress hyper responsiveness. Results presented here show emergence of antidepressive-like behavior following peripubertal-juvenile exposure to chronic variable physical (CVP) and chronic variable social stress (CVS) in HR rats, and...
Show moreExperimentally naive rats show variance in their locomotor reactivity to novelty, some displaying higher (HR) while others displaying lower (LR) reactivity, associated with vulnerability to stress. LRHR phenotype is proposed as an antecedent to the development of stress hyper responsiveness. Results presented here show emergence of antidepressive-like behavior following peripubertal-juvenile exposure to chronic variable physical (CVP) and chronic variable social stress (CVS) in HR rats, and depressive-like behavior following CVP in the LRs. The antidepressive-like behavior in HR rats was accompanied by increased levels of acetylated Histone3 (acH3) and acetylated Histone4 (acH4) at the hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) P2 and P4 promoters respectively. This effect may mediate increased mossy fibre (MF) terminal field size, particularly the suprapyramidal mossy fibre projection volume (SP-MF), in the HR animals following both stress regimens. These findings show that chronic variable stress during adolescence induces individual differences in molecular, neuromorphological and behavioral parameters between LRs and HRs, which provides further evidence that individual differences in stress responsiveness is an important factor in resistance or vulnerability to stress-induced depression and/or anxiety.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360950
- Subject Headings
- Rats as laboratory animals, Anxiety in adolescence, Depression in adolescence, Stress (Psychology), Cellular signal transduction, Hippocampus (Brain), Physiology, Genetic regulation, Gene expression
- Format
- Document (PDF)