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Effects of mindfulness meditation on anxiety, depression, stress, and mindfulness in nursing students: a meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials Cover

Effects of mindfulness meditation on anxiety, depression, stress, and mindfulness in nursing students: a meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials

Open Access
|Mar 2020

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Flow diagram of inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Figure 2

Risk of bias graph and summary of the included studies. A. Risk of bias graph B. Risk of bias summary.

Figure 3

Effect of mindfulness meditation on anxiety, depression, stress and mindfulness. A. Anxiety B. Depression C. Stress D. Mindfulness

Figure 4

Outcomes of Trial Sequential Analysis. A. Anxiety B. Stress C. Mindfulness

Main characteristics of included RCTs

StudyDesignCountrySubjectsSample (n)age (year) (Mean ± SD)InvestigationStudy durationOutcomes assessment
ECECEC
Burger et al.31RCTUSANursing students2824UnclearUnclearMMWL4 weeks, meditate 10 min/day and keeping a practicePSS, FFMQ
Chen et al.35RCTChinaNursing students303019.4 ± 0.8519.7 ± 0.88MMNI1 week, 7 sessions, each session lasted 30 min/daySAS, SDS
Kang et al.32RCTKoreaNursing students212022.69 ± 1.4922.25 ± 0.68SCBMMNI8 weeks, 8 sessions, each session lasted 1.5–2 h/weekSTAI, BDI, PWI-SF
Ratanasiripong et al.34RCTThaiNursing students293118–2118–21MMNI4 weeks, 2 sessions, practicing 3 times/daySTAI, PSS
Song et al.33RCTKoreaNursing students212319.6 ± 1.719.5 ± 2.0MBSRWL8 weeks, 8 sessions, each session lasted 2 h/weekDASS-A, DASS-D, DASS-S, MAAS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2020-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2544-8994 | Journal ISSN: 2097-5368
Language: English
Page range: 59 - 69
Submitted on: May 17, 2019
Accepted on: Jun 12, 2019
Published on: Mar 31, 2020
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2020 Yu-Feng Li, Wen-Xin Sun, Xiu-Jie Sun, Juan Sun, Dong-Mei Yang, Bei-Li Jia, Bin Yuan, published by Shanxi Medical Periodical Press
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