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- Clemente Franco Justo.
- Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain. cfranco@ual.es
- Aten Primaria. 2010 Nov 1; 42 (11): 564570564-70.
PurposeTo check the effectiveness of a mindfulness development meditation technique on stress and anxiety in a group of primary-care physicians.DesignQuasi-experimental with pretest/posttest/follow-up measurements in a control group and an experimental group. SITE: University of Almeria.Participants38 primary-care physicians enrolled in a Teaching Aptitude Course (CAP).InterventionAn experimental group and a control group were formed with 19 participants in each. The experimental group took a psycho-educational meditation program for training and practice in mindfulness.MeasurementThe Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Strain Questionnaire and the State-Trait Anxiety Questionnaire were used to measure stress and anxiety levels.ResultsA comparative statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney non-parametric U test, finding a significant reduction in all the primary-care physician stress and anxiety variables in the experimental group compared to the control group in pretest-posttest and follow-up tests.ConclusionsThe results of this study support the effectiveness of mindfulness development meditation techniques in decreasing stress and anxiety in primary-care physicians. Nevertheless, the study shows various limitations that would have to be corrected in successive studies to bring more validity to the results.Copyright © 2009 Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.
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