Stress management in medical education: a review of the literatureS L Shapiro
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
Acad Med 75:748-59. 2000
..To review systematically clinical studies providing empirical data on stress-management programs in medical training...
Quality of life and breast cancer: relationship to psychosocial variablesS L Shapiro
Department of Psychology University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721 0068, USA
J Clin Psychol 57:501-19. 2001
..The current literature lends support to the argument that a broader, more integrative framework, which includes psychosocial factors, is needed...
Going quasi: the premature disclosure effect in a randomized clinical trialShauna L Shapiro
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
J Behav Med 25:605-21. 2002
..Potential implications of PDE for clinical research in behavioral medicine are discussed and specific statistical methodologies suggested...
The efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction in the treatment of sleep disturbance in women with breast cancer: an exploratory studyShauna L Shapiro
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Psychosom Res 54:85-91. 2003
..Therefore, the present study examined the efficacy of a stress reduction intervention for women with breast cancer...
A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness meditation versus relaxation training: effects on distress, positive states of mind, rumination, and distractionShamini Jain
SDSU UCSD Joint Doctoral Program, Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA 92103 0804, USA
Ann Behav Med 33:11-21. 2007
..Although mindfulness meditation interventions have recently shown benefits for reducing stress in various populations, little is known about their relative efficacy compared with relaxation interventions...
Meditation lowers stress and supports forgiveness among college students: a randomized controlled trialDoug Oman
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
J Am Coll Health 56:569-78. 2008
..The authors evaluated the effects on stress, rumination, forgiveness, and hope of two 8-week, 90-min/wk training programs for college undergraduates in meditation-based stress-management tools...
Cultivating mindfulness: effects on well-beingShauna L Shapiro
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA
J Clin Psychol 64:840-62. 2008
..These results suggest that distinct meditation-based practices can increase mindfulness as measured by the MAAS, which may partly mediate benefits. Implications and future directions are discussed...
Combining mindfulness meditation with cognitive-behavior therapy for insomnia: a treatment-development studyJason C Ong
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305 5730, USA
Behav Ther 39:171-82. 2008
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