Emotional Distress

Mindfulness-based stress reduction and health-related quality of life in a heterogeneous patient population.

Reibel, D., Greeson, J.M., Brainard,G.C.,& Rosenzweig, S. General Hospital Psychiatry, 23:4, July-August 2001, p. 183-192.

We conclude that a group mindfulness meditation training program can enhance functional status and well-being and reduce physical symptoms and psychological distress in a heterogeneous patient population and that the intervention may have long-term beneficial effects.

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