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Mindfulness Meditation: Alleviating Symptoms and Inflammation in Nurses
Sponsor: Jordan University of Science and Technology
Summary
Background: Nurses have experienced several stressors, the most important of which are increased workloads, long shifts, patients' negative results, some patients not responding to treatment, death at high rates, late detection of disease cases, lack of social support system, and limited typical coping. Aim: The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation for clinical nurses to improve perceived stress and somatic symptoms and pro-inflammatory factors. Among Jordanian clinical nurses. Methodology: The study will be conducted using a post-test randomized controlled experimental design. The study data will be collected using a self-report questionnaire and blood sampling from 102 nurses in in King Abdullah hospitals at baseline and at the end of intervention. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), Version 26.
Official title: Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Perceived Stress, Somatic Symptoms and Inflammatory Biomarkers Among Nurses
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
102
Start Date
2024-08-01
Completion Date
2024-10-10
Last Updated
2024-10-10
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Mindfulness meditation
The experimental group received eight 60-minute weekly sessions of mindfulness meditation over eight weeks in a private and quiet room at the hospital, according to Smith's (2005) recommendation. The study intervention was an audio based MBI sent to them by the WhatsApp application. It is a free, self-paced program developed by a study researcher based on the Smith's (2005) protocol. The theory-based program (Smith, 2005) includes the ABC standardized versions of MBI (Smith, 2005), described as follows: * Meditation of the body (Body sense meditation) * Meditation of the body (Rocking meditation) * Meditation of the body (Breathing meditation) * Meditation of mind (Mentra meditation) * Meditation of mind (visual Image) * Meditation of sense (External image) * Meditation of the senses (A sound) * Open monitoring (Mindfulness)
Locations (1)
King Abdullah University Hospital
Irbid, None Selected, Jordan