Mindfulness exercises reduce death anxiety and burnout in intensive care nurses

Abstract

Intensive care units (ICUs) nurses experience a high level of death anxiety. Interventions that reduce death anxiety are needed. We conducted a nonrandomized study with 66 ICU nurses. The 34 in the intervention group received an 8-week tailored mindfulness-based intervention and the 32 in the control group received no intervention. Both groups completed pre and post-tests of death anxiety and burnout. At post-test, the levels of death anxiety and job burnout in the intervention group were significantly lower than the control group. Mindfulness-based intervention can reduce the death anxiety level and burnout of ICU nurses.

Acknowledgments

All authors are grateful to all the participants and all counselors in this study for their corporation.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

Data are available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author.