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Mindful-STOP: Mindfulness Made Easy for Stress Reduction in Medical Students
Education in Medicine Journal
Format: Journal Article
Publication Date: Nov 30, 2013
Sources ID: 64136
Visibility: Public (group default)
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Medical students in Malaysia face enormous amount of stress that can compromise their medical training. A brief group Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (b-MBCT)/Mindful-Gym) programme has been developed to help medical students cope more effectively with stress. The intervention was found to be effective for reducing stress and increasing subjective well-being among medical students in University Putra Malaysia (UPM). One of the training methodologies used in the programme, ‘Mindful-S.T.O.P.,’ was particularly popular among the students. The aim of this paper is to describe the concept and application of this mindfulness-based psychological tool (Mindful-S.T.O.P.) for stress reduction in medical students.