Mindfulness-based stress reduction lowers psychological distress in medical students

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 88-92

  Rosenzweig, Steven ^a,b   Reibel, Diane K ^a   Greeson, Jeffrey M ^a   Brainard, George C ^a   Hojat, Mohammadreza ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDITATION; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD; MOOD DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; TENSION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELAXATION TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042278699     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15328015TLM1502_03     Document Type: Article

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