[Reducing stress levels and anxiety in primary-care physicians through training and practice of a mindfulness meditation technique]
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[Reducing stress levels and anxiety in primary-care physicians through training and practice of a mindfulness meditation technique]
Abstract
Purpose: To check the effectiveness of a mindfulness development meditation technique on stress and anxiety in a group of primary-care physicians.
Design: Quasi-experimental with pretest/posttest/follow-up measurements in a control group and an experimental group. SITE: University of Almeria.
Participants: 38 primary-care physicians enrolled in a Teaching Aptitude Course (CAP).
Intervention: An experimental group and a control group were formed with 19 participants in each. The experimental group took a psycho-educational meditation program for training and practice in mindfulness.
Measurement: The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Strain Questionnaire and the State-Trait Anxiety Questionnaire were used to measure stress and anxiety levels.
Results: A comparative statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney non-parametric U test, finding a significant reduction in all the primary-care physician stress and anxiety variables in the experimental group compared to the control group in pretest-posttest and follow-up tests.
Conclusions: The results of this study support the effectiveness of mindfulness development meditation techniques in decreasing stress and anxiety in primary-care physicians. Nevertheless, the study shows various limitations that would have to be corrected in successive studies to bring more validity to the results.
Objetivo: Evaluar la eficacia de una técnica de meditación para el desarrollo de la conciencia plena (mindfulness) sobre los niveles de estrés y ansiedad en un grupo de médicos de atención primaria.
Diseño: Cuasiexperimental con un grupo control y un grupo experimental.
Emplazamiento: Universidad de Almería.
Participantes: Treinta y ocho médicos de atención primaria (19 en el grupo experimental y 19 en el grupo control) matriculados en el curso para la obtención del Certificado de Aptitud Pedagógica.
Intervención: El grupo experimental recibió un programa psicoeducativo de meditación para el entrenamiento y práctica de la conciencia plena.
Mediciones: Para la medición de los niveles de estrés y ansiedad se emplearon la escala de estrés percibido, el cuestionario Strain y el cuestionario de ansiedad estado-rasgo.
Resultados: Se observó una reducción significativa en el grupo experimental en comparación con el grupo control en todas las variables que evaluaban los niveles de estrés y ansiedad de los médicos de atención primaria al comparar sus puntuaciones pretest-postest y pretest-seguimiento.
Conclusiones: Los resultados de la presente investigación son un apoyo a la eficacia de las técnicas de meditación para el desarrollo de la conciencia plena para la disminución de los niveles de estrés y ansiedad en médicos de atención primaria. No obstante, el estudio presenta varias limitaciones que habría que subsanar en sucesivas investigaciones para dotar de mayor validez a los resultados obtenidos.
Copyright © 2009 Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.
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