Mindfulness Training for Health Profession Students—The Effect of Mindfulness Training on Psychological Well-Being, Learning and Clinical Performance of Health Professional Students: A Systematic Review of Randomized and Non-randomized Controlled Trials

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• 作者：Janet McConville ; BAppSci (Physio) ; MPhysio¹ ; ^{j.mcconville@latrobe.edu.au} ; Rachael McAleer ; MPhysio ; BPhysio² ; Andrew Hahne ; BPhysio (Hons) ; PhD¹
• 关键词：health professional students ; mindfulness ; mindfulness-based stress reduction ; stress ; well-being ; systematic review
• 刊名：EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January-February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：13
• 期：1
• 页码：26-45
• 全文大小：1428 K
• 卷排序：13

文摘

High levels of stress have been identified in medical students and increasingly in other health profession student population groups. As stress can affect psychological well-being and interfere with learning and clinical performance, there is a clear argument for universities to include health professional student well-being as an outcome in core curriculum. Mindfulness training is a potential construct to manage stress and enhance academic success.ObjectivesThe aims of this systematic review were to assess the effectiveness of mindfulness training in medical and other health professional student population groups and to compare the effectiveness of the different mindfulness-based programs.Data SourcesA literature search was completed using The Cochrane library, Medline, Cinahl, Embase, Psychinfo, and ERIC (proquest) electronic databases from inception to June 2016. Randomized and non-randomized controlled trials were included. Of the potential 5355 articles, 19 met the inclusion criteria.Study Selection Participants and InterventionsStudies focused on medical (n = 10), nursing (n = 4), social work (n = 1), psychology (n = 1), and medical plus other health (n = 3) students. Interventions were based on mindfulness.Data ExtractionThe 19 studies included 1815 participants. Meta-analysis was performed evaluating the effect of mindfulness training on mindfulness, anxiety, depression, stress, mood, self-efficacy, and empathy. The effect of mindfulness on academic performance was discussed.Data Synthesis and ConclusionsMindfulness-based interventions decrease stress, anxiety, and depression and improve mindfulness, mood, self-efficacy, and empathy in health profession students. Due to the range of presentation options, mindfulness training can be relatively easily adapted and integrated into health professional training programs.