Mindfulness-Based Intervention For Nurses In AIDS Care In China: A Pilot Study

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Table 1 Qualitative Interview Guide

Feedback of participants on feelings about the MLWS intervention What is your reaction to (or feelings about) the mindfulness intervention? Did you have any challenges in the mindfulness intervention? If you did, what are the challenges you experienced? What are your suggestions for improvement of the mindfulness intervention? From 1 to 10 (1 means strongly dislike and 10 means strongly like), how do you feel about the intervention? Would you recommend the mindfulness intervention to other nurses?

Feedback of participants on the effect of the MLWS intervention Has the mindfulness intervention affected your living with stress at work? If so, please explain. Has the mindfulness intervention influenced your living with stress in daily life? If so, please explain. Has the mindfulness intervention brought other changes in your life except for living with stress, eg, your emotions, acceptance of yourself and others, relationships, mindfulness in work and daily life … ? If so, please explain. How has the mindfulness intervention worked for you? And please tell us for you what are the least and most helpful aspects of the intervention.

Table 2 Sociodemographic Characteristics

Sociodemographic Characteristics		n	% Of Total
Gender	Male	1	5.3
	Female	18	94.7
Age	M±SD	27.68±5.90
	Range of ages	21–41
Degree	Associate degree	7	36.8
	Bachelor degree	11	57.9
	Master degree or doctor degree	1	5.3
Title	Junior nurse	8	42.1
	Senior nurse	7	36.8
	Nurse in-charge	3	15.8
	Associate chief senior nurse	1	5.3
Years of nursing practice	M±SD	6.84±6.44
	Range of length	2–23
Years of nursing practice in HIV/AIDS care	M±SD	3.45±2.72
	Range of length	0.5–10
Telling families the fact of caring for HIV	Yes	17	89.5
	Not sure	2	10.5
Telling people outside families the fact of caring for HIV	Yes	11	57.9
	No	4	21.1
	Not sure	4	21.1
Monthly household income	Refuse to answer	2	10.5
	3000~6000	5	26.3
	6000~9000	7	36.9
	More than 9000	5	26.3
Marital Status	Single	9	47.4
	Married	9	47.4
	Divorced	1	5.3
Using any psychotropic medications	Refuse to answer	1	5.3
	Yes (Estazolam)	1	5.3
	No	17	89.5
Currently smoke	Yes	1	5.3
	No	18	94.7
Currently drink alcohol	Yes	4	21.1
	No	15	78.9
Previous mindfulness practices	Yes (Yoga)	4	21.1
	No	15	78.9

Table 3 Pre- And Posttest Comparisons Of Scores On Measures

	N	Baseline Mean (SE)	Post- Intervention Mean (SE)	Change Diff In Means (95% CI)	t (df)	p
Depression	19	13.68 (13.02)	11.58 (9.62)	2.10 [−5.18,9.38]	1.287 (18)	0.215
Stress	19	29.00 (8.03)	25.63 (5.78)	3.77 [−1.45,8.19]	1.660 (18)	0.114
State Anxiety	19	43.37 (11.94)	39.32 (10.33)	4.05 [−3.05,11.15]	1.749 (18)	0.097
Trait Anxiety	19	47.32 (11.05)	43.32 (10.75)	4.00 [−2.93,10.93]	1.574 (18)	0.133
Mindfulness-observing	19	19.37 (4.25)	22.89 (4.25)	−3.53 [−5.74,−1.31]	−3.342 (18)	0.004
Mindfulness-describing	19	23.32 (4.22)	22.68 (2.96)	0.63 [−0.86,2.12]	0.889 (18)	0.385
Mindfulness–acting with awareness	19	30.95 (6.75)	28.21 (4.93)	2.74 [0.53,4.94]	2.611 (18)	0.018
Mindfulness–nonjudging of inner experience	19	25.21 (4.06)	25.00 (4.84)	0.21 [−2.05,2.47]	0.196 (18)	0.847
Mindfulness-nonreactivity to inner experience	19	18.16 (4.97)	19.42 (4.56)	−1.26 [−2.63,0.10]	−1.949 (18)	0.067
Burnout-EE	19	24.79 (10.64)	23.84 (9.44)	0.95 [−5.45,7.35]	0.350 (18)	0.730
Burnout-DP	19	7.31 (5.52)	6.63 (5.08)	0.98 [−2.30,4.26]	0.756 (18)	0.459
Burnout-PA	19	19.53 (7.05)	20.58 (8.17)	−1.05 [−5.90,3.80]	−0.657 (18)	0.520

Abbreviations: EE, Emotional Exhaustion; DP, Depersonalization; PA, Personal Achievement.

Data Availability

The datasets generated and analyzed during the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.