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 et al., 2007
,
Leite et al., 2010
,
Malini et al., 2011
,
Piet and Esben, 2011
,
Ramel et al., 2004
,
Schreiner and Malcolm James, 2008
,
Toneatto and Nguyen, 2007
). There was no prior research using a mindfulness intervention combined with aromatherapy
to reduce stress and anxiety for hospitalized psychiatric patients.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: March 14, 2015
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