[Mindfulness meditation in somatic medicine. A management tool for physical and psychological pain]
Jelena Stanic1,2, David Jackson-Perry3, Corine Courvoisier4
1PhD, Chargée de projet, Institut universitaire de formation et de recherche en soins, Faculté de biologie et de médecine, Université de Lausanne, 1010 Lausanne.
Abstract:
Mindfulness meditation is a mind-body approach that helps to cope with psychological or physical symptoms such as pain. To date, this approach is still not widely available to patients in our French-speaking somatic clinical settings, despite its scientific validation. This article describes three mindfulness meditation programs delivered at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) to people living with HIV, cancer or chronic pain. It highlights the issues related to the involvement of participants in these programs as well as those related to their implementation in a Swiss somatic, teaching French-speaking hospital.
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