Experiences of Clinical Clerkship Students With Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: A Qualitative Study on Long-Term Effects.

Purpose: To explore the mindfulness practice, its long-term effects, facilitators and barriers, in clinical clerkship students 2 years after participation in an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training.

Method: A qualitative study was performed by semi-structured in-depth interviews with 16 clinical clerkship students selected by purposive sampling. Students had participated in a MBSR training 2 years before and were asked about their current mindfulness practice, and the long-term effects of the MBSR training.

What a neurologist should know about depression in Parkinson's disease.

Depression is a frequent non-motor symptom of Parkinson's disease. Its prevalence varies widely across studies (between 2.7% and 90%); around 35% have clinically significant depressive symptoms.

The Prognostic Effect of Physical Health Complaints With New Cardiac Events and Mortality in Patients With a Myocardial Infarction.

Background: Self-rated general health has been associated with worse outcome after a myocardial infarction (MI). Previously, however, concurrent depression or anxiety was not taken into account.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of physical health complaints post-MI on cardiac prognosis adjusting for cardiac disease severity, depression, and anxiety.

Prognostic association of cardiac anxiety with new cardiac events and mortality following myocardial infarction.

Background: General anxiety and depressive symptoms following a myocardial infarction are associated with a worse cardiac prognosis. However, the contribution of specific aspects of anxiety within this context remains unclear.

Aims: To evaluate the independent prognostic association of cardiac anxiety with cardiac outcome after myocardial infarction.

Inverse correlation between cardiac injury and cardiac anxiety: a potential role for communication.

Objective: General anxiety in cardiac patients is associated with worsened cardiac course. An acute coronary syndrome (ACS) might evoke specific cardiac anxiety. We explored the characteristics associated with cardiac anxiety in ACS patients.