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James Cook University
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-10-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-02-2023
DOI: 10.1111/APHW.12441
Abstract: The clinically standardised mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) has been utilised as an intervention for improving mental health among diabetes patients The present study aimed to assess the effectiveness of mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) on the mental health, haemoglobin A1c (HbA1C), and mindfulness of diabetes patients. A systematic review and meta‐analysis approach was employed to review randomised controlled trials published in the English language between the inception of eight databases to July 2022. Eleven articles from 10 studies, with a combined s le size of 718 participants, were included in the systematic review, and nine studies were included in the meta‐analysis. In the meta‐analysis, outcomes at post‐intervention and follow‐up were compared between the MBSR intervention and control groups with an adjustment of the baseline values. The results showed that MBSR demonstrated effects at post‐intervention and follow‐up (in a period between one to 12 months with a mean length of 4.3 months) in reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms, and enhancing mindfulness, with large effect sizes. However, the effect of MBSR on reducing stress was observed at follow‐up, but not at post‐intervention. Effects of MBSR on HbA1C were not detected at post‐intervention and follow‐up. The findings suggest that MBSR appears to be an effective treatment for improving mental health conditions and mindfulness in people with diabetes. The measurement of cortisol is recommended to be used as a biological measure to evaluate the effectiveness of MBSR in diabetes patients in future research.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-06-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-01-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2017
DOI: 10.1111/AJPY.12152
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2017
Abstract: A s le of 324 55–90-year-old Australian adults participated in a survey on elderly substance abuse using the Clinical Assessment Scales for the Elderly. Overall, males had a higher prevalence rate of substance abuse than females. Significant differences in substance abuse mean scores were found for gender, age, income, community involvement, and retirement. The findings also reveal that being a female, involved in community groups, being a retiree, and being a non-baby boomer are protective factors of substance abuse. Being an upper medium income earner appears to be a risk factor of substance abuse.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2019
DOI: 10.1111/PERE.12267
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-05-2019
DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2019.1609135
Abstract: The need to make sense of one's mortality is of central concern for death studies. We aimed to explore the meaning of aftermath concerns in the process of preparing for death. Using a qualitative approach, we explored aftermath concerns among 25 participants with terminal cancer in China. Three aftermath concern themes were developed from the participants' narratives: mental concerns about parents, material concerns about children, and spiritual concerns about the self. Aftermath concerns are relational because they are not about what happens within an in idual, but between in iduals which are manifested within the broader cultural, social, economic, and political contexts.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2015
Abstract: This article uses ex les of problem gambling and help seeking among Chinese international students in New Zealand to demonstrate place identity transformation. Two-wave narrative interviews were conducted with 15 Chinese international students. Place identity among participants is shown to be a process that features the transformation of participants’ identity. While the casinos in which the Chinese international students gambled gave rise to negative place identities, positive place identities facilitated the participants to change their problematic gambling. Through the investigation of place identity transformation, this article promotes a strength-based, non-labelling approach to intervention for people who are concerned about their gambling behaviours.
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 17-12-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JONM.13217
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.2174
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1177/18344909231192765
Abstract: The current study investigated the moderating effects of COVD-19 infection severity of region of residence, and the mediating effects of resilience and self-efficacy, on the relationship between mindfulness and mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 1,220 participants from 107 cities in China took part in a cross-sectional survey. The data were collected during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (from April 10 to June 10, 2020). The final s le comprised of 1,201 participants with a mean age of 29.62 (SD = 12.72 Range = 18–78). Participants were categorized into high, moderate, and low infection-severity areas according to the numbers of infected people and deaths in their residential areas as of April 16, 2020. The findings showed that mindfulness, resilience, and self-efficacy were negatively associated with the mental distress indicators of stress, anxiety, and depression and that mindfulness, resilience, and self-efficacy positively correlated to one another. COVID-19 infection severity in one's region of residence did not moderate the negative associations between mindfulness and stress, anxiety and depression, while resilience and self-efficacy mediated the negative relationship between mindfulness and mental distress. This study therefore sheds light on some of the mechanisms by which mindfulness helps in iduals maintain good mental health in times of adversity. The inclusion of mindfulness, resilience, and self-efficacy in the design and implementation of mental health intervention in response to the pandemic and future public health crisis may help mitigate some of the mental problems related to the COVID-19 and future pandemics.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-03-2021
Abstract: Building upon the tripartite model of anxiety and depression, the current study aims to examine mechanisms of comorbidity between anxiety and depression using the ProQOL (Professional Quality of Life including the constructs of burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction) in a s le of Chinese health-care clinicians. A randomized cross-sectional survey was distributed to 1620 participants who were recruited from eight state-owned hospitals in a city in southern China between January and May 2017. A total of 1562 questionnaires were returned (a response rate of 96.4%). After the cases with more than 10% missing variables and multivariate outliers being removed, 1423 valid cases remained. Multiple mediator models were used for mediation analysis that was conducted using the PROCESS v3.1 macro for SPSS. The indirect effects of anxiety upon depression through burnout (a1 = . 601 (95% confidence interval (CI): .552, .650), p .001 b1 = .137 (95% CI: .101, .174), p .001) and compassion satisfaction (a3= −.297 (95% CI: −.352, −.241), p .001 b3 = −.069 (95% CI: −.100, −.039), p .001) were significant, while there was no evidence that anxiety influenced depression by changing secondary traumatic stress. The indirect effects of depression upon anxiety through secondary traumatic stress (a2 = . 535 (95% CI: .483, .588), p .001) b2 = .154 (95% CI: .120, .188), p .001) were both positive and significant, while there was no evidence that depression influenced anxiety by changing burnout and compassion satisfaction. In the current s le, burnout and compassion satisfaction mediated the effect of anxiety upon depression and secondary traumatic stress mediated the effect of depression upon anxiety. The findings of the current study offer support to the tripartite model.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-02-2020
Abstract: This study was a randomised controlled study on the effects of the in idual computer magnanimous therapy and group computer magnanimous therapy on emotional, psychosomatic and immune function among advanced lung cancer patients. Patients were examined at baseline and 2 weeks later using the Psychosomatic Status Scale for Cancer Patients, Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale and IgA, IgG, IgM and natural killer cell functions. The results showed that in idual computer magnanimous therapy and group computer magnanimous therapy were beneficial for advanced lung cancer patients in improving depression, anxiety, psychosomatic status and immune functions. The improvements of immune functions may be related to the improvements of the participants’ emotional and psychosocial status.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2010
Abstract: Psychologists have foregrounded the importance of links between places and daily practices in the construction of subjectivities and well-being. This article explores domestic gardening practices among older Chinese immigrants. Initial and follow-up interviews were conducted with 32 Chinese adults ranging in age from 62 to 77 years. Participants recount activities such as gardening as a means of forging a new sense of self and place in their adoptive country. Gardening provides a strategy for self-reconstruction through spatiotemporally establishing biographical continuity between participants’ old lives in China and their new lives in New Zealand.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 10-2020
DOI: 10.1037/MEN0000259
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2020
Abstract: This study aims to explore mediating effects of professional quality of life on the relationship between big-five personality traits and job satisfaction in a Chinese healthcare setting. A total of 1620 Chinese healthcare professionals were recruited to participate in a randomised cross-sectional survey. The results suggest that professional quality of life transmitted the effect of personality to job satisfaction. Specifically, compassion satisfaction and burnout mediated the positive effect of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness upon job satisfaction as well as mediated negative effects of neuroticism upon job satisfaction. Secondary traumatic stress mediated the positive effect of extraversion upon job satisfaction. The paper also discusses the cultural factors contributing to the mediating effects and implications offered by the study at the macro, messo, and micro levels.
Start Date: 2011
End Date: 2011
Funder: Education New Zealand
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End Date: 2011
Funder: World Bank Group
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2013
End Date: 2014
Funder: James Cook University
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2016
End Date: 2017
Funder: Shanghai Municipal Education Commission
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