Background There is an urgent need for mental health promotion in nonclinical settings.
Mindfulness–based programmes (MBPs) are being widely implemented to reduce stress …

Psychological stress is a crucial factor in the development of many skin diseases, and the
stigma caused by skin disorders may further increase the psychological burden, forming a …

Mindfulness interventions aim to foster greater attention to and awareness of present
moment experience. There has been a dramatic increase in randomized controlled trials …

Despite evidence linking trait mindfulness and mindfulness training with a broad range of
effects, still little is known about its underlying active mechanisms. Mindfulness is commonly …

Research over the past two decades broadly supports the claim that mindfulness meditation—
practiced widely for the reduction of stress and promotion of health—exerts beneficial effects …

Both basic science and clinical research on mindfulness, meditation, and related constructs
have dramatically increased in recent years. However, interpretation of these research …

Mindfulness meditation represents a mental training framework for cultivating the state of
mindful awareness in daily life. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in how …

There has been a great increase in literature concerned with the effects of a variety of mental
training regimes that generally fall within what might be called contemplative practices, and …

Objective There has been substantial research and public interest in mindfulness
interventions, biological pathways, and health for the past two decades. This article reviews …

Initial well-controlled studies have suggested that mindfulness training interventions can
improve a broad range of mental and physical health outcomes (eg, HIV pathogenesis …