Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
January 1, 2025
Jojo Yan Yan Kwok, Lily Man Lee Chan, Charis Ann Lai et al.
13 citations
In people with Parkinson's disease, 8 weeks of either meditation or yoga, compared to usual care, led to significant reductions in anxiety, motor symptoms, and chronic inflammation (measured by interleukin-6 levels), and improved health-related quality of life and the ability to describe experiences. Only meditation significantly reduced depressive symptoms and sustained the improvements in motor symptoms and quality of life at 6 months. The study involved 159 participants with mild to moderate Parkinson's disease who were randomly assigned to meditation, yoga, or a control group.
BMC complementary medicine and therapies
July 17, 2023
Jojo Yan Yan Kwok, Man Auyeung, Shirley Yin Yu Pang et al.
6 citations
A trial will test whether individual mindfulness techniques—meditation or yoga—help Parkinson's disease patients manage anxiety and depression, which affect 40–50% of patients. Participants will be randomly assigned to meditation, yoga, or usual care for 8 weeks. The study measures anxiety, depression, motor and non-motor symptoms, quality of life, mindfulness, and stress biomarkers at baseline, 8 weeks, and 24 weeks. Qualitative interviews with 30 participants per intervention group will explore their experiences. The research aims to inform community-based, nurse-led compassionate care models for neurodegenerative conditions.
Journal of affective disorders
July 15, 2025
Hongjuan Wang, Hui Wang, Jojo Yan Yan Kwok et al.
5 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) improve several health outcomes for women going through menopause, including reducing menopausal symptoms, anxiety, depressive symptoms, stress, and sleep problems, while enhancing quality of life and mindfulness levels. These findings come from a meta-analysis of 18 randomized controlled trials involving 1,670 participants. The interventions showed good acceptability, with a low dropout rate (6%) and high adherence (79%). However, the overall quality of evidence was rated low to moderate due to methodological limitations and small sample sizes, so more rigorous research with longer follow-up is needed to confirm these benefits and understand how MBIs work.