Title
Impact of mindfulness on stress in workers of a university in southern lima
Other title
Impacto del mindfulness en el estrés en trabajadores de una universidad de lima sur
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Oblitas Guadalupe L.A.
Gómez J.A.
Bayona Oré L.S.
Ferrel Ortega F.R.
Núñez Gómez N.A.
Publisher(s)
Universidad del Norte
Abstract
Objetive: To assess the impacto of a mindfulness program on physiological stress. emotional distress, perceived stress, and work stress in a group of workers. Material and methods: 28 universiy workers (employees and teachers) participated, who had registered high levels of work stress in a previous institutional evaluation. The program consisted of six training sessions in mindfulness once a week and with two hours per sessions (12 hours in total) with the techniques of mindfulness in breathing, in the body (body scan), thinking, emotions and break. Biofeedback measurements were used to evaluate five physiological stress indicators and three tests to measures. Results: blood volumen in the skin (d = 0.8), blood pulse (d = 0.8) and frequency of abdo-minal breathing (d = 0.9), emotional distess (d = 0.9), perceived stress (d = 0.7) and work stress (d = 0.6). Conclusión: mindfulness had a significant impact on stress reduction in university workers.
Start page
238
End page
249
Volume
35
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología (incluye terapias de aprendizaje, habla, visual y otras discapacidades físicas y mentales) Salud ocupacional
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85083371801
Source
Salud Uninorte
ISSN of the container
01205552
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