Mindfulness Meditation: Alleviating Symptoms and Inflammation in Nurses

"The experimental group received eight 60-minute weekly sessions of mindfulness meditation over eight weeks in a private and quiet room at the hospital, according to Smith's (2005) recommendation. The study intervention was an audio based MBI sent to them by the WhatsApp application. It is a free, self-paced program developed by a study researcher based on the Smith's (2005) protocol.~The theory-based program (Smith, 2005) includes the ABC standardized versions of MBI (Smith, 2005), described as follows:~* Meditation of the body (Body sense meditation)~* Meditation of the body (Rocking meditation)~* Meditation of the body (Breathing meditation)~* Meditation of mind (Mentra meditation)~* Meditation of mind (visual Image)~* Meditation of sense (External image)~* Meditation of the senses (A sound)~* Open monitoring (Mindfulness)"