Reducing healthcare burnout through meditation: benefits and challenges
Varnika Fnu1, Divya Rajasekaran2, Anamika Pilaniya3
1Internal Medicine, Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Science Research, Mullana, India.
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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