A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Impact of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on the Well-Being of Healthcare Professionals

Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

Authors

  • Tim Lomas
  • Joan Carles Medina
  • Itai Ivtzan
  • Silke Rupprecht
  • Francisco José Eiroa-Orosa

Efforts to improve the well-being of healthcare professionals include mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). To understand the value of such initiatives, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of empirical studies pertaining to the use of MBIs with healthcare professionals. Databases were reviewed from the start of records to January 2016 (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42016032899). Eligibility criteria included empirical analyses of well-being outcomes acquired in relation to MBIs. Forty-one papers met the eligibility criteria, consisting of a total of 2101 participants. Studies were examined for two broad classes of well-being outcomes: (a) “negative” mental health measures such as anxiety, depression, and stress; (b) “positive” indices of well-being, such as life satisfaction, together with outcomes associated with well-being, such as emotional intelligence. MBIs were generally associated with positive outcomes in relation to most measures (albeit with moderate effect sizes), and mindfulness does appear to improve the well-being of healthcare professionals. However, the quality of the studies was inconsistent, so further research is needed, particularly high-quality randomised control trials.

Original languageEnglish
JournalMindfulness
Volume10
Issue number7
Pages (from-to)1193-1216
Number of pages24
ISSN1868-8527
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15.07.2019

    Research areas

  • Healthcare professionals, Meditation, Meta-analysis, Mindfulness
  • Health sciences

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. Christliche Kunst
  2. Business Trips. Features, Occasions, Effects
  3. Linking Sustainable Business Models and Supply Chains – Toward an Integrated Value Creation Framework
  4. The conservation value of paddock trees for birds in a variegated landscape in southern New South Wales. 1. Species composition and site occupancy patterns
  5. Instrumentierung der Abfallvermeidung - ein Strukturproblem?
  6. Learning to research environmental problems from a functional socio-cultural constructivism perspective
  7. Transformationsnarrative
  8. From rebound to reinforcement effects.
  9. Relationalität I+II
  10. Identifying governance gaps among interlinked sustainability challenges
  11. The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus
  12. Effective working hours and wages
  13. Towards more impactful energy research
  14. Measuring the Speed of Information Technology in Enterprises
  15. Influence of implant base material on secondary bone healing
  16. Nation as a Context for Strategy
  17. Non-linear effects of comparison income in quit decisions: status versus signal !
  18. Participation in protected area governance
  19. Introducing education for sustainable development into Egyptian schools
  20. Virtual-exchange collaboration timeline planner
  21. Die Existenzgründungsabsicht
  22. Fehler beim Controlling
  23. Small patches can be valuable for biodiversity conservation: two case studies on birds in southeastern Australia
  24. Aquatic Exposure Predictions of Insecticide Field Concentrations Using a Multimedia Mass-Balance Model