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. 2021 Aug 23;18(16):8855.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph18168855.

The Effectiveness and Safety of Mind-Body Modalities for Mental Health of Nurses in Hospital Setting: A Systematic Review

Su-Eun Jung  1 , Da-Jung Ha  1 , Jung-Hyun Park  1 , Boram Lee  2 , Myo-Sung Kim  3 , Kyo-Lin Sim  4 , Yung-Hyun Choi  5 , Chan-Young Kwon  6
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The Effectiveness and Safety of Mind-Body Modalities for Mental Health of Nurses in Hospital Setting: A Systematic Review

Su-Eun Jung et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The mental health of nurses including burnout is an important issue. The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate whether mind-body modalities improve burnout and other mental health aspects of nurses. A comprehensive search was conducted using six electronic databases. Randomized controlled trials using mind-body modalities on the mental health of nurses, up to January 2021, were included. The methodological quality of the included studies was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool. Seventeen studies were included in the review. Data on mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and yoga were available for burnout, and there was no evidence that multimodal resilience programs including MBIs statistically significantly improved burnout levels compared to no intervention or active control groups. However, one study reported that yoga could significantly improve emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, which are subscales of burnout, compared to usual care. In addition, the effects of MBIs, relaxation, yoga, and music on various mental health outcomes and stress-related symptoms have been reported. In conclusion, there was some evidence that yoga was helpful for improvement in burnout of nurses. However, due to the heterogeneity of interventions and outcomes of the studies included, further high-quality clinical trials are needed on this topic in the future.

Keywords: burnout; mental health; mind-body medicines; nurse; systematic review.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

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A PRISMA flow diagram of the literature screening and selection processes. AMED, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database; CENTRAL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.
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Figure 2
Risk of bias summary for all included studies. Low, unclear, and high risk, respectively, are represented with the following symbols: “+”, “?”, and “–”.
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Risk of bias graph for all included studies.
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