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ReviewCogent mental health2025

Reducing healthcare burnout through meditation: benefits and challenges.

Varnika Fnu, Divya Rajasekaran, Anamika Pilaniya, Kanishk Aggarwal, Mini Virmani, Aachal Gupta, Rohit Jain

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Review in Cogent mental health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Varnika FnuInternal Medicine, Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Science Research, Mullana, India.
Divya RajasekaranInternal Medicine, SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Center, Kanchipuram, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6199-407X
Anamika PilaniyaInternal Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1339-0266
Kanishk AggarwalInternal Medicine, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7518-446X
Mini VirmaniClinical Effectiveness & Quality Improvement, Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, New Jersey, USA.
Aachal GuptaAmity Regional High School, Woodbridge, CT, USA.
Rohit JainInternal Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9101-2351

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, healthcare professionals face challenges such as excessive stress, mental distress, psychiatric issues, and burnout. Contributors include various personal, professional, and environmental stressors such as prolonged work hours, high workload, patient care responsibility, information overload, and financial concerns. Stress and burnout can cause employee turnover, staffing shortages, medical errors, reduced job satisfaction, and reduced interest in pursuing or continuing healthcare as a career. This paper explores meditation as a possible solution for tackling stress- and burnout-related issues among healthcare professionals. We present findings from various studies that have revealed the physiological effects of meditation and demonstrated its impact on stress reduction, cardiovascular health, immune function, brain structure, pain management, and genetic expression. We provide insights into commonly used meditation tools such as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MSBR) programs, challenges, and solutions for implementing meditation-related programs in mainstream healthcare delivery.

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burnoutfatiguehealthcare workersMeditationmental healthmindfulnessstress

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PMID41262963
PMCPMC12443006

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