You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 15, Issue 3
  • Mindfulness meditation for women with irritable bowel syndrome – evidence of benefit from a randomised controlled trial

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Women's health
Randomised controlled trial
Mindfulness meditation for women with irritable bowel syndrome – evidence of benefit from a randomised controlled trial
  1. David J Kearney
  1. Department of Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA
  1. Correspondence to David J Kearney
    Seattle VA Medical Centre, 111GI, 1660 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, USA; kearney{at}u.washington.edu

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2012-100488

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Commentary on: Gaylord SA, Palsson OS, Garland EL, et al. Mindfulness training reduces the severity of irritable bowel syndrome in women: results of a randomized controlled trial. Am J Gastroenterol 2011;106:1678–88.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed

    Implications for Nursing Practice and Research

    • ■ Participation in a 8-week course of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) may reduce irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms and improve quality of life for women with IBS.

    • ■ Patient education for women with IBS should now include MBSR as a potential treatment option.

    Context

    IBS is common with prevalence estimates ranging from 3.7% to 22% worldwide.1 IBS is characterised by recurrent abdominal pain or discomfort associated with two or more of the following: (1) symptom improvement with defecation, …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None.

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Copyright information:

    Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions