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- Title
Mindfulness: Enhancing physical and mental wellbeing.
- Authors
Hardy, Sheila
- Abstract
The article discusses mindfulness meditation and its efficacy in improving the physical and mental wellbeing of diabetic patients. Topics covered are the two variants mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), study findings indicating decreased psychological distress, and better acceptance coping and self-management behavior and the ways practice nurses can encourage patients to adopt mindfulness exercises as part of their treatment protocol.
- Subjects
ANXIETY treatment; MENTAL depression; THERAPEUTICS; TYPE 2 diabetes treatment; TYPE 2 diabetes &; psychology; DIABETES; PEOPLE with diabetes; MEDICAL office nursing; MEDITATION; METABOLIC regulation; HEALTH self-care; STRESS management; YOGA; WELL-being; MOBILE apps; MINDFULNESS; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Practice Nursing, 2015, Vol 26, Issue 9, p450
- ISSN
0964-9271
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12968/pnur.2015.26.9.450