Unit:
Library of the School of Health SciencesΚατεύθυνση Ψυχική Υγεία
Author:
Zachariadis Panagiotis
Supervisors info:
Μιχαήλ Χατζούλης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Νοσηλευτική, ΕΚΠΑ
Γεώργιος Καλλέργης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Νοσηλευτική, ΕΚΠΑ
Αντωνία Πασχάλη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Νοσηλευτική, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Θεραπευτικές προσεγγίσεις βασισμένες στην ενσυνειδητότητα (mindfulness) και διαταραχές χρήσης αλκοόλ
Translated title:
Theurapeutic approaches based on mindfulness and alcohol use disorders
Summary:
Introduction: Alcohol abuse is a global phenomenon that according to W.H.O. leads to 3,3 million deaths every year. On the other hand, the last few years years mindfulness has emerged in the field of psychology, based on which therapeutic techniques have been developed that seem to be able to help in a continuously growing number of diagnostical section of mental health.
Objectives: Assessing the effects of mindfulness-based interventions in people with alcohol-related disorders.
Methods: Search was carried out in May and June 2018 at Pubmed, Science Direct and Google Scholar search engine. The inclusion criteria was a) studies involving people over the age of 18, b) written in English, c) belonging to the category of clinical trials and d) involve intervention with a mindfulness-based therapeutic technique and not just any kind of meditation.
Results: The survey included a total of 22 clinical trials. Of these, some have shown superiority of mindfulness-based techniques comparing to control groups or other techniques in areas such as heavy drinking days and craving, but there have been others that did not show statistically significant differences in most of the areas examined. Few were the trials that did not have a limited sample size.
Conclusions: Mindfulness-based interventions seem to have prospects to help people with alcohol-related disorders. However, the small number of clinical trials providing data on the results of the intervention, the small sample size and the heterogeneity in the methodology of the trials are factors that lead to not being able to extract safe conclusions. Further research could be conducted with these aspects in mind.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Mindfulness, ACT, DBT, MBRP, MBCT, MBSR, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Mindfulness-based interventions, Substance abuse
Number of references:
106
