The Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Perceived Stress Among Healthcare Professionals

"The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program is considered to offer healthcare professionals working under high levels of stress the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in consciously recognizing their emotions, compassionately accepting painful feelings without suppression, and transforming negative thoughts and emotions into more constructive ones.~In the first and last sessions, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), and the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) will be administered, and saliva samples will be collected.~In the remaining sessions, only the VAS-one of the stress measurement parameters-will be verbally administered. In this way, participants will be informed weekly about the progression of their stress levels.~The program to be implemented in the study will consist of weekly sessions held over eight weeks. Each session will be conducted for groups of 10 participants, three consecutive days"