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Med Teach
January 2025
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Healthcare Simulation Center (Centre Lyonnais d'Enseignement par Simulation en Santé, CLESS), SIMULYON, Lyon, France.
Purpose: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a stressful exam assessing medical competencies. Stress coping strategies are expected to enhance students' performance during OSCE. The objective was to determine the effect of short preventive coping interventions on performance of medical students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Psychophysiol Biofeedback
January 2025
Compassionate Mind Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Autistic adults experience greater rates of anxiety and depression compared to the general population. Compassion-focused therapy interventions, aimed at promoting self-compassion capabilities, have shown efficacy in improving mental health outcomes in autistic and non-autistic samples suffering from self-criticism that contribute to difficulties in emotion regulation. We explored the experiences of autistic adults during a brief one-week online self-compassion exercise to evaluate it's feasibility and acceptability through self-report, experience sampling, and parasympathetic activity measured via HRV.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Frontotemporal dementia is the most common form of dementia impacting those under the age of 60. It is estimated that 30% of affected persons have a genetic predisposition to this disease, with mutations in the genes encoding progranulin (GRN), chromosome 9 open reading frame 72(C9orf72), and microtubule associated protein tau (MAPT). Mutations in MAPT were discovered in 1998, yet to date, there have been no therapies or multisite clinical trials available to families.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Mood Anxiety Disord
December 2024
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 69 Jesse Hill Jr Drive, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
Low-income, urban-dwelling Black adults are disproportionately affected by traumatic experiences, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression and encounter inequities in treatment access. In addition to the benefits Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depression, there is preliminary evidence of successful symptom reduction in PTSD via MBCT across two prior pilot studies in veterans. Studies examining the effects of MBCT among trauma-exposed Black adults remains limited, and examination of effects across specific PTSD clusters is almost nonexistent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGoal: A lack of healthcare worker well-being is a serious threat to patient care quality and safety, as well as to the overall operational performance of hospitals in the US healthcare delivery system. Extreme resilience depletion and compassion fatigue are known to negatively influence individual well-being and have contributed to the rise in turnover in the healthcare workforce. The primary aim of this research was to identify interventions that health system leaders can use to combat resilience depletion and exhaustion among healthcare workers.
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