Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Older Adults: Effects on Executive Function, Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Immune Function

Moynihan, Jan A.; Chapman, Benjamin P.; Klorman, Rafael; Krasner, Michael S.; Duberstein, Paul R.; Brown, Kirk Warren; Talbot, Nancy L.

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“…At post-treatment, MBSR program participants had greater self-reported improvements in mood, coping, and rumination relative to health education program participants (Sibinga et al 2016). Finally, in moving from early life to late life, wait-list controlled RCTs also suggest that mindfulness interventions have the potential to improve markers of healthy aging among older adults (e.g., executive function, inflammation) (Creswell et al 2012, Moynihan et al 2013). …”

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“…For example, several initial well-controlled studies show that mindfulness interventions may reduce markers of pro-inflammation, including circulating blood markers of C Reactive Protein (Malarkey et al 2013), Interleukin-6 (Creswell et al 2016), and one's stress-induced inflammatory skin flare response (Garland et al 2014a) (although MBSR failed to affect stimulated Interleukin-6 responses in rheumatoid arthritis patients, see Zautra et al 2008). In contrast to inflammatory effects, there is currently mixed evidence on whether mindfulness interventions can boost antibody levels or one's antibody response to vaccination (Hayney et al 2014, Moynihan et al 2013.…”

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Mindfulness Interventions

Creswell

2017

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Mindfulness interventions aim to foster greater attention to and awareness of present moment experience. There has been a dramatic increase in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of mindfulness interventions over the past two decades. This article evaluates the growing evidence of mindfulness intervention RCTs by reviewing and discussing (a) the effects of mindfulness interventions on health, cognitive, affective, and interpersonal outcomes; (b) evidence-based applications of mindfulness interventions to new settings and populations (e.g., the workplace, military, schools); (c) psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness interventions; (d) mindfulness intervention dosing considerations; and (e) potential risks of mindfulness interventions. Methodologically rigorous RCTs have demonstrated that mindfulness interventions improve outcomes in multiple domains (e.g., chronic pain, depression relapse, addiction). Discussion focuses on opportunities and challenges for mindfulness intervention research and on community applications.

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Mindfulness Interventions

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2017

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“…13 Of the five personality dimensions, it was expected to find that openness and agreeableness would be related to increased use of MBSR techniques. Those with high levels of openness are insightful and introspective 12 and have less parasympathetic and affective reactivity to stressful situations, 14 which resembles the open curiosity toward both internal and external experiences without reactivity inherent in mindfulness practice.…”

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Personality Predicts Utilization of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction During and Post-Intervention in a Community Sample of Older Adults

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The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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Objectives: Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a promising intervention for older adults seeking to improve quality of life. More research is needed, however, to determine who is most willing to use the four techniques taught in the program (yoga, sitting meditation, informal meditation, and body scanning). This study evaluated the relationship between the Big Five personality dimensions (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and agreeableness) and use of MBSR techniques both during the intervention and at a 6-month follow-up. The hypothesis was that those with higher levels of openness and agreeableness would be more likely to use the techniques. Methods: Participants were a community sample of 100 older adults who received an 8-week manualized MBSR intervention. Personality was assessed at baseline by using the 60-item NEO Five-Factor Inventory. Use of MBSR techniques was assessed through weekly practice logs during the intervention and a 6-month followup survey. Regression analyses were used to examine the association between each personality dimension and each indicator of MBSR use both during and after the intervention. Results: As hypothesized, openness and agreeableness predicted greater use of MBSR both during and after the intervention, while controlling for demographic differences in age, educational level, and sex. Openness was related to use of a variety of MBSR techniques during and after the intervention, while agreeableness was related to use of meditation techniques during the intervention. Mediation analysis suggested that personality explained postintervention MBSR use, both directly and by fostering initial uptake of MBSR during treatment. Conclusions: Personality dimensions accounted for individual differences in the use of MBSR techniques during and 6 months after the intervention. Future studies should consider how mental health practitioners would use these findings to target and tailor MBSR interventions to appeal to broader segments of the population.

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“…Given the negative relationship between chronic psychological stress and indices of immune function, several groups have hypothesized that stress reduction interventions may enhance responses to an immune challenge, in part, due to reduced exposure to neuroendocrine stress mediators. To date, reports from three randomized controlled trials have been published in which vaccination has been used to compare antigen-specific immune responses in MBSR-trained subjects and controls (22)(23)(24). Of the three studies, the first reported that MBSR-trained subjects had greater antigen-specific antibody titers, the second reported no difference between MBSR-trained subjects and controls and the third reported that MBSRtrained subjects had significantly lower antibody titers than controls.…”

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