Mindfulness and Well-being: Websites and Reports

The experience of cognitive deficits is common among patients with degenerative and psychiatric disorders. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of the empirical literature of mindfulness intervention on cognitive functions.

This cross-sectional study examined therelationships between mindfulness, self-esteem, resiliency and mental health symptoms(anxiety, stress, depression and cognitive inflexibility) in a sample of 106 healthy adolescents.

This study aimed to understand the associations between mindfulness, perceived stress, and work engagement in a very large sample of English-speaking adults, from 130 different countries. It also aimed to assess participants' self-reported changes following a 6-week mindfulness massive open online course (MOOC).Published by the Pew Research Center, November 16, 2020.

The boundary between mindfulness and forest bathing, two conceptually related therapies, is unclear. Accordingly, this study reports the strengths and challenges, similarities and differences, and barriers and facilitators for both. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven trained and experienced practitioners of both mindfulness and forest bathing.

A medical study aimed to find out whether meditation is as effective as an antidepressant medication commonly prescribed for generalized anxiety disorder.

In recent decades, public interest in mindfulness meditation has soared. Paralleling, and perhaps feeding, the growing popular acceptance has been rising scientific attention. The number of randomized controlled trials — the gold standard for clinical study — involving mindfulness has jumped from one in the period from 1995‒1997 to 11 from 2004‒2006, to a whopping 216 from 2013‒2015, according to a recent article summarizing scientific findings on the subject.