Pre-retirement Employees Experience Lasting Improvements in Resilience and Well-Being After Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

Autor:	Diachenko M; Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, (CNCR), Amsterdam, Neuroscience, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Smith KK; Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, (CNCR), Amsterdam, Neuroscience, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Fjorback L; Danish Center for Mindfulness, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Brabrand, Denmark., Hansen NV; Danish Center for Mindfulness, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Brabrand, Denmark., Linkenkaer-Hansen K; Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, (CNCR), Amsterdam, Neuroscience, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Pallesen KJ; Danish Center for Mindfulness, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Brabrand, Denmark.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2021 Jul 15; Vol. 12, pp. 699088. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jul 15 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2021.699088
Abstrakt:	The socio-economic benefits of interventions to prevent stress and related mental health problems are enormous. In the labor market, it is becoming desirable to keep employees for as long as possible. Since aging implies additional stressors such as increased risk of illness, and added pressure by professional tasks such as transferring knowledge, or learning new technologies, it is of particular relevance to offer stress-reduction to pre-retirement employees. Here, we report the effects of an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) intervention on mental well-being in 60-65-year-old work-active Danish employees, compared to a waiting-list control group. We observed improvements in resilience (Brief Resilience Scale) and mental well-being (WHO-5) not only at the end of the intervention, but also at the 12-month follow-up measurement that was preceded by monthly booster sessions. Interestingly, whereas well-being usually refers to experiences in the past weeks or months, we observed increasing Comfort in the MBSR-intervention group during a 5-minute eyes-closed rest session suggesting that this therapeutic effect of MBSR is measurable in how we feel even during short periods of time. We argue that MBSR is a cost-effective intervention suited for pre-retirement employees to cultivate resilience to prevent stress, feel more comfortable with themselves, maintain a healthy work-life in the last years before retirement, and, potentially, stay in their work-life a few more years than originally planned. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2021 Diachenko, Smith, Fjorback, Hansen, Linkenkaer-Hansen and Pallesen.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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