Brief Mindfulness Practices for Healthcare Providers – A Systematic Literature Review
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Goyal, A
Hamati, MC
Mann, J
Saint, S
Chopra, V
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Mindfulness practice, where an individual maintains openness, patience, and acceptance while focusing attention on a situation in a nonjudgmental way, can improve symptoms of anxiety, burnout, and depression. The practice is relevant for health care providers; however, the time commitment is a barrier to practice. For this reason, brief mindfulness interventions (eg, ≤ 4 hours) are being introduced. We systematically reviewed the literature from inception to January 2017 about the effects of brief mindfulness interventions on provider well-being and behavior. Studies that tested a brief mindfulness intervention with hospital providers and measured change in well-being (eg, stress) or behavior (eg, tasks of attention or reduction of clinical or diagnostic errors) were selected for narrative synthesis. Fourteen studies met inclusion criteria; 7 were randomized controlled trials. Nine of 14 studies reported positive changes in levels of stress, anxiety, mindfulness, resiliency, and burnout symptoms. No studies found an effect on provider behavior. Brief mindfulness interventions may be effective in improving provider well-being; however, larger studies are needed to assess an impact on clinical care.
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The American Journal of Medicine
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130
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© 2017 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Biomedical and clinical sciences
Health care providers
Inpatient
Mindfulness
Systematic literature review
Well-being
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Gilmartin, H; Goyal, A; Hamati, MC; Mann, J; Saint, S; Chopra, V, Brief Mindfulness Practices for Healthcare Providers – A Systematic Literature Review, The American Journal of Medicine, 2017, 130 (10), pp. 1219.e1-1219.e17