Influence of a mindfulness meditation-based stress reduction intervention on rates of skin clearing in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis undergoing phototherapy (UVB) and photochemotherapy (PUVA)

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 625-632

  Kabat Zinn, Jon ^a   Wheeler, Elizabeth ^a   Light, Timothy ^a   Skillings, Anne ^a   Scharf, Mark J ^a   Cropley, Thomas G ^a   Hosmer, David ^b   Bernhard, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Meditation; Mindfulness; Photochemotherapy; Phototherapy; Psoriasis; Relaxation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELAXATION TRAINING; STRESS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031663471     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199809000-00020     Document Type: Article

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