1. Mindfulness in primary care healthcare and teaching professionals and its relationship with stress at work: a multicentric cross-sectional study
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Magallón-Botaya, R., Pérula-de Torres, L.A., Verdes-Montenegro Atalaya, J.C., Pérula-Jiménez, C., Lietor-Villajos, N., Bartolomé-Moreno, C., Garcia-Campayo, J., Moreno-Martos, H., Rodriguez, L.A., Roldán-Villalobos, A., Melús-Palazón, E., Valverde, F.J., Hachem-Salas, N., García-De Vinuesa, L., Morillo, C., Grande, T., Epstein, R., Borau, L., Arias-Vega, R., Minduudd Collaborative Study Group, [Magallón-Botaya,R, Bartolomé-Moreno,C] Family and Community Medicine Teaching Department of Zaragoza Sector 1, Institute of Health Carlos III (redIAPP 06/18), IIS-Aragon, Group B21-R17, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. [Pérula-de Torres,LA, Pérula-Jiménez,C] Multi-professional Teaching Unit for Family and Community Care of Córdoba, Healthcare District of Córdoba and Guadalquivir, Institute Maimónides of Research Córdoba (IMIBIC)/Hospital Reina Sofía/University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain. [Pérula-de Torres,LA] Instittute of Health Carlos III (redIAPP 06/18), IIS-Aragon, Group B. University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. [Verdes-Montenegro Atalaya,JC] Family and Community Medicine Teaching Department of Burgos, Burgos, Spain. [Lietor-Villajos,N] Family and Community Medicine Teaching Department of Burgos, Burgos, Spain. [Garcia-Campayo,J] Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain. [Moreno-Martos,H] Multi-professional Teaching Unit for Family and Community Care of Almeria, Almeria, Spain., and The project has received funding from DGA group (B17-17R) and the Network for Prevention and Health Promotion in Primary Care (REDIAPP) grant from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, co-financed with European Union ERDF funds (RD16/0007/0005).
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Background Work stress is a common problem among the health personnel of the Spanish National Health System. The objective of this paper is to assess the state of mindfulness among Spanish primary care providers and to evaluate its potential relationship with work stress and basic labor and sociodemographic characteristics. Methods Cross-sectional, multi-centric study. Primary care nurses, teachers, teaching collaborators and residents assigned to six Spanish Family Medicine/Family and Community Care Departments were invited to participate (n = 475). A template was designed in Google Forms, including sociodemographic and work-related variables. The state of mindfulness was measured with the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), while work-related stress was measured using an ordinal scale ranging from 0 to 10 points. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were carried out, as well as bivariate and multivariate statistics. Results The mean age of participants was 40,14 ± 13.12 (range:23–65 years); 66.9% were women, 42.5% internal medicine residents, 29.3% family physicians, and 20.2% nurses. More than half (54.5%) knew about mindfulness, with 24.0% have received training on it, and 22.5% were usual practitioners. The average level of mindfulness was 127.18 ± 15.45 (range: 89–177). The average score of stress at work was 6.00 ± 2.44; 49.9% (range: 0–10). 49.9% of participants scored 7 or more on the stress at work scale. There was an inverse correlation between the levels of mindfulness (FFMQ total score) and work-related stress (Spearman’s r = − 0.155, p = 0.003). Significant relationships between the mindfulness practice and the level of mindfulness (F = 29.80, p p = 0.042), were also found. Conclusions Levels of mindfulness in primary care health providers were in line with those levels observed in other groups of health professionals. Half of all of the primary care providers suffered from a high degree of stress. Although weak, inverse relationships were observed between levels of mindfulness and stress at work, with lower values of stress at work among those who practiced mindfulness. Trial registration NCT03629457.
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- 2021