School of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, 9 DongDanSanTiao, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China.
3 papers in the library · 20 citations · publishing 2024-2025
A six-week online mindfulness course for undergraduate nursing students in Beijing temporarily reduced stress and anxiety and improved mindfulness and perceived social support, but these mental health benefits did not persist at a three-month follow-up. Perceived social support mediated the relationship between mindfulness and mental symptoms. The findings suggest that sustained benefits may require regular practice, highlighting the need for ongoing mindfulness integration into training programs.
The Chinese Short-Form Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-SF) shows good overall fit for measuring mindfulness in nursing students in mainland China, with confirmatory factor analyses supporting a five-factor structure. Composite reliability values ranged from 0.685 to 0.870, and average variance extracted values from 0.426 to 0.627. One-factor models provided the best fit for four of the five subscales. The cross-sectional study included 240 undergraduate nursing students from a Beijing school of nursing who completed the FFMQ-SF and the Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale. Results suggest the scale is a valid instrument for assessing mindfulness and its relationship with mental health in this population.
Conscious awareness is needed for integrating basic sensory features into coherent percepts. Using intracranial recordings in awake and anesthetized states, the study found that in the awake state, the brain automatically encodes individual auditory features (loudness and tone) and binds them together without attention, within a localized sensory cortical network. In the anesthetized state, encoding of single attributes is preserved, but binding is abolished, and anesthesia mainly affects later cortical processes after stimulus offset. These results suggest the functional boundary of consciousness lies between encoding and manipulation of basic sensory features at local cortical circuits, rather than global computations.