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Dipl. Psych. Marcus Majumdar, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Dr. Phil. Harald Walach:
Achtsamkeitsmeditation als therapeutischer und präventiver Beitrag zur
Gesundheit. 2000 zur Zusammenfassung
Studie: Dr. Ulrike Tiefenthaler-Gilmer. Dissertation Wien 2002
Achtsamkeitsmeditation als klinische Intervention. Eine kontrollierte Studie zur Wirksamkeit
eines Achtsamkeitsmeditationsprogramms an Patientinnen mit Fibromyalgiesyndrom.
. zur Zusammenfassung
Studie:
University Of Wisconsin Study Reports Sustained Changes In
Brain And Immune Function After Meditation. 2003 zur
Zusammenfassung (deutsch) (englisch )
Studie:
Center For The Advancement Of Health MEDITATION MAY CUT STRESS,
IMPROVING MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH. 2001-07-10 Zur
Zusammenfassung (englisch)
weitere
Studien auf der Internetseite von UMass (Center for Mindfulness in Medicine,
Health Care and Society (CFM))): http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/bibliography/index2.cfm
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Dipl.
Psych. Marcus
Majumdar, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Dr. Phil. Harald Walach:
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Achtsamkeitsmeditation und Gesundheit- Eine explorative Panelstudie (erschienen
im KVC Verlag Essen 2000, ISBN, 3-933351-14-6)
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Achtsamkeitsmeditation als therapeutischer und präventiver Beitrag zur
Gesundheit. (Continentale Förderpreis für Naturheilkunde 2000) (Zitate aus
Continentale Förderpreis für Naturheilkunde Bd.5)
Einige
wesentliche Aussagen : „Wir wollten
untersuchen, ob Achtsamkeitsmeditationskurse, so wie sie von Kabat-Zinn in den
Vereinigten Staaten durchgeführt werden, bei Patienten mit psychosomatischen
und psychischen Problemen in Deutschland
a)
durchführbar sind
b)
b) eine Veränderung in Befindlichkeit und Symptomenbild bewirken
c)
mit diesem hier vorgeschlagenen Evaluationskonzept untersuchbar sind.“
„21 Patienten
(22-62 Jahre)“
„Als Design
haben wir eine Vorher/Nachher - Beobachtungsstudie gewählt mit eine dreimonatigen
Nachbefragung (Katamnese)“.
Ergebnisse:
„Das Allgemeinbefinden gemessen mit der FBL (Freiburger Beschwerdeliste) stieg
zum Katamnesezeitpunkt signifikant an.“ „ Die psychische Belastung gemessen
mit der SCL-90 verbesserte sich von der Vortestung bis zum Katamnesezeitpunkt
klinische bedeutsam und statistisch hochsignifikant. Ebenso verbesserte sich die
Lebenszufriedenheit, insbesondere im gesundheitsbezogenen Modul, deutlich und
signifikant.“ Insgesamt
wurden die Kurserfahrungen von den Teilnehmern sehr positiv aufgenommen. Dabei
wurde vor allem die Bewusstheit und das Innehalten, sowie die dadurch ereichte
Gelassenheit zu einer Positiven Grunderfahrung. „ „Der bewährte
Aufbau der Kurse nach Anzahl, Inhalt und Länge der Kurselemente hat sich auch
bei dieser deutschen Stichprobe als bewährt erwiesen.
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Dr. Ulrike
Tiefenthaler-Gilmer. Dissertation Wien 2002
Achtsamkeitsmeditation als klinische Intervention. Eine kontrollierte Studie zur
Wirksamkeit eines Achtsamkeitsmeditationsprogramms an Patientinnen mit
Fibromyalgiesyndrom.
Die Untersuchung wurde mit zwei Versuchsgruppen (25 Teilnehmer/innen ) und einer
Kontrollgruppe von 13 Teilnehmer/innen durchgeführt.
Die Teilnehmerinnen der Versuchgruppe nahmen am klassischen 8-Wochen Kurs teil mit
den Elementen: Achtsamkeitstraining für Körperempfindungen, Gedanken und Gefühle und
den an die Schmerzsituation angepassten Yogaübungen sowie CDs zum Üben und
schriftliches Material
Die Kontrollgruppe hatte jeweils ein Pendant zu den Methoden des Achtsamkeitskurses im
Programm: Muskelentspannung nach Jakobsen, Stretchingübungen, Vorträge zu Stress,
Schmerz und Bewegung, Entspannungsmusik CDs und schriftliches Arbeitsmaterial.
Die Effektunterschiede waren im Vergleich zur Kontrollgruppe signifikant besser, besonders
in den Bereichen: Lebensqualität , affektiver Schmerz, sensorischer Schmerz, Depression,
Angst, Schmerzregulation.
Untersucht wurde die Situation zum Kursbeginn, am Ende des Kurses und 3 Monate später.
Fragebögen: Fragebogen zur Schmerzregulation (FSR), Schmerzempfindungsskala (SES,
Visual Analog Scale (VAS), Fragebogen zu Kompetenz und Kontrollüberzeugungen (FKK),
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D), Profil der Lebensqualität chronisch
Kranker (PLC), Grad der Zielerreichung ZP2,ZP3
Zusammenfassung der Studie der
Universität von Wisconsin (Febr. 2003):
Die Teilnehmer der Gruppe, die am 8-Wochen-Kurs
zur Stressbewältigung durch Achtsamkeit (MBSR) teilgenommen hatten, wurden mit
EEG-Befund,
Blutuntersuchungen + allgemeinen Untersuchungen mit einer Kontrollgruppe (ohne Kurs)
verglichen.
1. Die Kursteilnehmer hatten nach dem Kurs eine
stärkere Aktivität im linken Stirnhirnbereich als die Kontrollgruppe.. Dieser
Bereich wird mit positiven Gefühlen und einer geringeren Angstintensität
in Zusammenhang
gebracht.
2. Alle Teilnehmer erhielten am Ende des 8-Wochen-Kurses eine Grippeimpfung. Bei den Kursteilnehmern war die Menge der gebildeten
Antikörper nach 4 bzw. 8 Wochen höher als bei der Kontrollgruppe.
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University Of
Wisconsin Study Reports Sustained Changes In
Brain And Immune Function After Meditation
MADISON – In a small
but highly provocative study, a University of Wisconsin-Madison
research team has found, for the first time, that a short program
in "mindfulness meditation" produced lasting positive
changes in both the brain and the function of the immune system.
The findings suggest that
meditation, long promoted as a technique to reduce anxiety and
stress, might produce important biological effects that improve a
person's resiliency.
Richard Davidson, Ph.D.,
Vilas Professor of psychology and psychiatry at UW-Madison, led
the research team. The study, conducted at the biotechnology
company Promega near Madison, will appear in an upcoming issue of
the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
"Mindfulness
meditation," often recommended as an antidote to the stress
and pain of chronic disease, is a practice designed to focus one's
attention intensely on the moment, noting thoughts and feelings as
they occur but refraining from judging or acting on those thoughts
and feelings. The intent is to deepen awareness of the present,
develop skills of focused attention, and cultivate positive
emotions such as compassion.
In the UW study,
participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups. The
experimental group, with 25 subjects, received training in
mindfulness meditation from one of its most noted adherents, Jon
Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. (Kabat-Zinn, a popular author of books on stress
reduction, developed the mindfulness-based stress reduction
program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.) This
group attended a weekly class and one seven-hour retreat during
the study; they also were assigned home practice for an hour a
day, six days a week. The 16 members of the control group did not
receive meditation training until after the study was completed.
For each group, in
addition to asking the participants to assess how they felt, the
research team measured electrical activity in the frontal part of
the brain, an area specialized for certain kinds of emotion.
Earlier research has shown that, in people who are generally
positive and optimistic and during times of positive emotion, the
left side of this frontal area becomes more active than the right
side does.
The findings confirmed
the researchers' hypothesis: the meditation group showed an
increase of activation in the left-side part of the frontal region.
This suggests that the meditation itself produced more activity in
this region of the brain. This activity is associated with lower
anxiety and a more positive emotional state.
The research team also
tested whether the meditation group had better immune function
than the control group did. All the study participants got a flu
vaccine at the end of the eight-week meditation group. Then, at
four and eight weeks after vaccine administration, both groups had
blood tests to measure the level of antibodies they had produced
against the flu vaccine. While both groups (as expected) had
developed increased antibodies, the meditation group had a
significantly larger increase than the controls, at both four and
eight weeks after receiving the vaccine.
"Although our study
is preliminary and more research clearly is warranted," said
Davidson, "we are very encouraged by these results. The
Promega employees who took part have given us a wonderful
opportunity to demonstrate a real biological impact of this
ancient practice."
Davidson, who is
integrally involved with the HealthEmotions Research Institute at
UW, plans further research on the impact of meditation. He is
currently studying a group of people who have been using
meditation for more than 30 years. His research team is also
planning to study the impact of mindfulness meditation on patients
with particular illnesses.
Mindfulness meditation
classes are offered through the UW Health Integrative Medicine
program at the Research Park clinic on Madison's west side (608)
265-8325 or visit http://www.uwhospital.org/integrativemed
for information.
Note:
This story has been adapted from a news release issued for
journalists and other members of the public. If you wish to quote
any part of this story, please credit University Of
Wisconsin-Madison as the original source. You may also wish to
include the following link in any citation:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/02/030204074125.htm
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Source: Center For The Advancement Of Health Date Posted: 2001-07-10
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Address: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/07/010710074320.htm
MEDITATION MAY CUT STRESS,
IMPROVING MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
An intensive program that teaches
meditation skills may help people reduce the psychological and physical effects
of high stress, according to a new study. Kimberly A. Williams, Ph.D., at West
Virginia University in Morgantown, and her colleagues assessed the benefits of
the program that taught participants to “discern a relaxed from tense body and
come to understand experientially how mental and emotional states influence the
body and vice versa.”
They recruited 62
“stressed-out” subjects from the community. Past studies of similar training
programs have shown the benefits in patients with confirmed psychiatric
diagnoses and/or chronic illness. This is the first study to examine the
benefits of such a program within a community setting, in people who reported
abnormally high stress but not at a level that constitutes a psychiatric
disorder. They found that the 35 participants who underwent what was termed
“mindfulness training” experienced an average 54 percent reduction in
psychological distress from the beginning of the program to three months later.
The 27 control subjects still available at the three-month follow-up had no
significant reduction in this measure, Williams reports. The study appears in
the current issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion.
The trainees also reported a 46
percent drop in medical symptoms over the three-month follow-up, compared with a
slight increase seen in the control group. “The lack of significant change
from baseline in the control group receiving educational materials and referral
to community resources is a potentially important finding, since many physicians
and wellness programs rely on these methods for addressing the stress management
needs of their patients and clients,” she says.
In contrast, the reductions in
distress and medical symptoms seen in the intervention group brought those
participants, who entered the study with an abnormally high amount of stress,
within the range of normal in terms of health and well-being. The study
intervention was an intensive program involving a total of 28 hours of group
learning over an eight-week period, including 2.5-hour classes once a week and
one eight-hour retreat. Participants learned four methods of meditation, general
yoga postures and other techniques for coping with stress, as well as how to
apply these techniques to their lives.
“The purpose of
mindfulness training is for participants to gain greater insight into their
perceptions, reactions and behaviors in life situations. Through the practice of
mindfulness, subjects are taught to consciously respond to stressful situations
in their daily life,” Williams says. The researchers warn that despite the
observation of significant effects, the study was limited by its small size and
the fact that they did not control for participants’ beliefs about the
usefulness of the program. They note that a growing public interest in
alternative medicine may have increased the receptivity of this group to the
intervention. Funding for the study came from the budgets of the Wellness
Program and the Prevention Research Center at West Virginia University.
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