Alternative therapies in health and medicine
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Altern Ther Health Med · Sep 2010
Randomized Controlled TrialMindfulness-based stress reduction for solid organ transplant recipients: a randomized controlled trial.
Patients who have received solid organ transplants continue to experience a myriad of complex symptoms related to their underlying disease and to chronic immunosuppression that reduce the quality of life. Beneficial nonpharmacologic therapies to address these symptoms have not been established in the transplant population. ⋯ MBSR reduced distressing symptoms of anxiety, depression, and poor sleep and improved quality of life. Benefits were sustained over 1 year. A health education program provided fewer benefits, and effects were not as durable. MBSR is a relatively inexpensive, safe, and effective community-based intervention.