Meditation involving people with cancer, medical staff and witnesses: a pilot study exploring improvement in wellness and connectedness.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mindfulness meditation is likely to promote better management of stress, pain and negative emotions. We propose to address the benefit of meditation in an open setting associating people with cancer (target population), medical staff and witnesses (neither patient nor medical staff). This study aims (1) to evaluate the effects of meditation on wellness improvement and (2) to identify criteria and modalities for a subsequent randomised study.

Methods and analysis

We propose a longitudinal pilot study consisting of a non-randomised experimental preintervention/postintervention survey. The intervention consists in delivering a meditation programme (12 weekly meditation sessions of 1.5 hours each), specifically adapted to our target population and addressing our res

SUBMITTER: Prevost V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8593735 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature