Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
January 1, 2025
Yan Li, Tsz Yu Chung, Wenze Lu et al.
28 citations
A chatbot-based Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program was feasible, acceptable, and safe for university students with depressive symptoms. In a single-group study of 30 university students in Hong Kong, the eight-week intervention showed high recruitment, retention, and adherence rates, with no adverse events. Significant improvements occurred in depression levels and secondary outcomes. Participant feedback highlighted the program's benefits. The findings suggest chatbot-delivered MBSR can reduce depressive symptoms in this population, warranting further evaluation in a randomized controlled trial.
Annals of general psychiatry
May 8, 2024
Xiao-Fen Fan, Ju-Yi Peng, Li Zhang et al.
13 citations
Adolescents with depression who self-harm often rely on negative coping strategies and may benefit from positive alternatives. A combination of mindfulness therapy and mentalization-based family therapy (MBFT) was tested against MBFT alone in 80 hospitalized adolescents with depressive disorder and suicidal ideation, randomly assigned to two groups of 40. After intervention, both groups showed lower scores on psychological health and suicidal ideation scales, but the group receiving both therapies had significantly greater improvements. The findings suggest that adding mindfulness therapy to MBFT can improve psychological condition and reduce suicidal thoughts in this population, supporting its clinical use.
Mindfulness
July 1, 2023
Snehal Lopes, Lu Shi, Xi Pan et al.
5 citations
Among 1,160 middle-aged and older adults from the Health and Retirement Study, meditating at least twice a week was not associated with changes in recall, global cognitive function, or quantitative reasoning over 16 years. However, among participants without depressive symptoms at the start, frequent meditation was linked to improvements in total recall and global cognitive function over time. The findings suggest that meditation may protect cognitive function only in those without baseline depressive symptoms.
Spinal cord
March 1, 2025
Mengqi Li, Wing Yiu Lo, Yule Hu et al.
2 citations
A scoping review of nine studies across four countries found that mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions (MABIs) improved psychological health outcomes—depression, anxiety, and stress—in people with spinal cord injury, with medium-to-large effect sizes (partial eta-squared from 0.112 to 0.223). Additional benefits were reported for chronic pain, functional independence, engagement in meaningful activities, and quality of life, though these were each examined in only one study. Participants found the interventions acceptable and satisfactory. Study quality was weak in six of the nine studies and strong in two. The findings generally support MABIs as effective for improving overall well-being in this population, though more research is needed on intervention design and mechanisms.
Frontiers in psychiatry
January 1, 2023
Yan Li, Yan Chen, Charlotte Martial et al.
A Chinese version of the Near-Death Experience Content (NDE-C) scale was translated and validated on 79 near-death experience testimonies. The translation used Brislin's back-translation model, and the scale showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.846). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the scale's structure. This new Chinese NDE-C scale is now available to screen people who have had near-death experiences or near-death-like experiences (e.g., from meditation) and to quantify their subjective experiences, enabling further research on this phenomenon in Eastern cultural contexts.