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Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on medical and premedical students (1998)
| Venue: | Journal of Behavioral Medicine |
| Citations: | 137 - 7 self |
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@ARTICLE{Shapiro98effectsof,
author = {Shauna L. Shapiro and Gary E. Schwartz and Ginny Bonner},
title = {Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on medical and premedical students},
journal = {Journal of Behavioral Medicine},
year = {1998},
pages = {581--599}
}
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Abstract
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. KEY WORDS: mindfulness meditation; medical education; stress-management; anxiety; depression; empathy; spirituality.
Keyphrases
premedical student mindfulness-based stress reduction increase score medical education different experiment well-controlled statistical design 8-week meditation-based stress reduction intervention mindfulness training short-term effect overall empathy level enormous stress medical student trait anxiety overall psychological distress potential long-term effect self-reported state spiritual experience wait-list control group present study mindfulness meditation exam period key word future research professional level
