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Research Brief| Volume 29, ISSUE 3, P192-193, June 2015

Mindfulness Meditation and Aromatherapy to Reduce Stress and Anxiety

  • Lee Redstone
    Correspondence
    Corresponding Author: Lee Redstone, MSN, CNS Behavioral Health Clinical Liaison, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Allen Hospital, 5141 Broadway, Room 2090, New York, NY 10034.
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    New York Presbyterian Hospital/Allen Hospital, New York, NY
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Published:March 14, 2015DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2015.03.001
      Coping with symptoms of stress and anxiety is a challenging experience and continues to tax the resources and limits of modern conventional health care. In the past 25–30 years, western medical science has turned increasing attention to the psychological and physical correlates of meditation, with mindfulness becoming quite popular in recent years. An extensive literature review was performed; the majority of articles were rated at level ll evidence based on a scale of l–Vll (l being the best evidence). Findings of the literature review support the evidence-based practice project of using mindfulness meditation as an intervention to reduce both stress and anxiety levels (
      • Lee S.H.
      • Ahn S.C.
      • Lee Y.J.
      • Choi T.K.
      • Yook K.H.
      • Suh S.Y.
      Effectiveness of a meditation-based management program as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy in patients with anxiety disorder.
      ,
      • Leite J.R.
      • De Moraes Ornellas F.L.
      • Amemiya T.M.
      • De Almeida A.A.
      • Dias A.A.
      • Afonso R.
      • et al.
      Effect of progressive self-focus meditation on attention, anxiety, and depression scores.
      ,
      • Malini Srivastava
      • Uddip Talukdar
      • Vivek Lahan
      Meditation for the management of adjustment disorder, anxiety and depression.
      ,
      • Piet Jacob
      • Esben Hougaard
      The effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for prevention of relapse in recurrent major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
      ,
      • Ramel
      • et al.
      The effect of mindfulness meditation on cognitive processes and affect in patients with past depression.
      ,
      • Schreiner Istvan
      • Malcolm James P.
      The benefits of mindfulness meditation: Changes in emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress.
      ,
      • Toneatto T.
      • Nguyen L.
      Does mindfulness improve anxiety and mood symptoms? A review of the controlled research.
      ). There was no prior research using a mindfulness intervention combined with aromatherapy to reduce stress and anxiety for hospitalized psychiatric patients.
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