Implementing mindfulness meditation in hand surgery training: a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgery can be stressful, requiring decision-making and performance under pressure. The COVID-19 pandemic has further challenged surgeons' well-being and training. Excess stress adversely affects well-being, technical and non-technical performance, and, by extension, patient care. Little emphasis has been placed on interventions to improve individual surgeons' stress resilience despite mindfulness training being robustly linked to resilience, well-being, and improved executive function and performance. This feasibility study aimed to evaluate the effect and acceptability of a mindfulness meditation session on a group of surgical trainees during a hand fracture fixation course.

Methods

All participants of a single-day hand fracture fixation course were invited to t

SUBMITTER: Cooper L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9187336 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature