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The use of mindfulness-based meditation to reduce stress among healthcare workers
Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering ; 83(9-B):No Pagination Specified, 2022.
Article in English | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-1957770
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Stress among healthcare workers is a common phenomenon causing adverse healthcare effects. Extended shifts, constrained relationships with patients and relatives, heavy workloads, as well as patient emergencies are common workplace occurrences in the professional life of healthcare workers resulting in psychological stress and burnout. More recently, the challenges associated with the corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic have contributed to high stress levels among healthcare providers. This can potentially affect patient care delivery. Interventions are therefore needed to reduce stress among healthcare workers. The purpose of the project was to implement mindfulness-based meditation to reduce stress in healthcare workers, ages 16 to 60, within an eight week period. The project was quasi-experimental and based on a convenience sample of healthcare workers working in a healthcare facility in Los Angeles. The project lasted eight weeks, and participants implemented a mindfulness-based meditation intervention. The project's main outcome was stress levels, which were determined using the perceived stress scale (PSS), before and after implementing the intervention. The findings revealed a statistically significant reduction in stress levels (t (23) = 10.824, p < .001). Therefore, mindfulness-based meditation could be an important intervention for mitigating stress among healthcare workers. Keywords mindfulness-based meditation, stress, stress management, and healthcare workers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: APA PsycInfo Topics: Traditional medicine Language: English Journal: Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering Year: 2022 Document Type: Article

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Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: APA PsycInfo Topics: Traditional medicine Language: English Journal: Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering Year: 2022 Document Type: Article