1. A resilience intervention involving mindfulness training for transplant patients and their caregivers
- Author
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Andrea Cuc, Amit Sood, Cynthia M. Stonnington, Betty Darby, David C. Mulligan, Joseph G. Hentz, Patricia Pathuis, Pamela Mulligan, Nan Zhang, and Angela Santucci
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Mindfulness ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Population ,Psychological intervention ,Pilot Projects ,Anxiety ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life ,medicine ,Humans ,Stress measures ,030212 general & internal medicine ,education ,Psychiatry ,Aged ,media_common ,Transplantation ,education.field_of_study ,Depression ,business.industry ,Yoga ,Organ Transplantation ,Middle Aged ,Resilience, Psychological ,Affect ,Distress ,Treatment Outcome ,Caregivers ,Patient Satisfaction ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Quality of Life ,Physical therapy ,Feasibility Studies ,Female ,Psychological resilience ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Stress, Psychological ,Follow-Up Studies ,Stem Cell Transplantation - Abstract
Solid organ and stem cell transplant patients and their caregivers report a substantial level of distress. Mindfulness-based stress reduction has been shown to alleviate distress associated with transplant, but there is limited experience in this population with other mindfulness-based interventions, or with combined transplant patient and caregiver interventions. We evaluated a novel, 6-week mindfulness-based resilience training (MBRT) class for transplant patients and their caregivers that incorporates mindfulness practice, yoga, and neuroscience of stress and resilience. Thirty-one heart, liver, kidney/pancreas, and stem cell transplant patients and 18 caregivers at Mayo Clinic in Arizona participated. Measures of stress, resilience, depression, anxiety, health-related quality of life, positive and negative affect, and sleep were completed at baseline, 6 weeks, and 3 months postintervention. At 6 weeks and 3 months, patients demonstrated significant (P
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- 2016