Mindfulness: An Effective Vehicle in Dealing with Stress, Depression and Anxiety

Running Head: MINDFULNESS: AN EFFECTIVE VEHICLE 1
Mindfulness is an Effective Vehicle in Dealing with Stress,
Depression and Anxiety
Teacher’s Name
Victoria University

MINDFULNESS: AN EFFECTIVE VEHICLE 2
Mindfulness is an Effective Vehicle in Dealing with Stress,
Depression and Anxiety
Broad Introductory Paragraph:
Mindfulness in psychology is defined as the action of being attentive of personal
feelings, thoughts and bodily sensation in moment by moment. This study report evaluates
various concepts of mindfulness as a subject in relation to stress, depression and anxiety. To
begin with, the content evaluates four peer reviewed journals, explains the aims of the study
as well as the method and materials used while conducting the DASS 21 lab process.
Review Several Pieces of literature
Summary journal 1 &2:
Journal 1: The first peer-reviewed journal selected for the study focused on the effect
of a mindfulness program on university students who were likely to suffer from depression,
anxiety and stress. According to of the study, university students suffer much from stress and
high anxiety levels immediately when admitted to universities and during examination
periods. The authors of this study focused on investigating whether mindfulness training
could help reduce or eliminate manifestation anxiety, depression, and stress among students.
To achieve the desired results, a group of first year students were identified as study group
one and matched to a control cohort and additional group that was involved in actively
physical activity. The authors of the study used DASS-21 scale of measurement to attain the
study results. The evident form the study, it was found that there was a reduced effect of
anxiety, stress and depression among the mindfulness study group as compare to the other
cohort groups. As a result it was concluded that, mindfulness program can be used as an
intervention for stress, anxiety and depression among university students.

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Journal 2: the second journal was a randomized controlled study by Warnecke et al.
on the magnitude of mindfulness exercise on the stress level of medical student. The study
was mainly objected towards determining whether mindfulness exercise can help reduce the
stress level midst senior medical learners. The participants of the study were randomly
carefully chosen from three main schools in the University of Tasmania. The study involved
the questionnaires, and the primary data obtained were analysed using PSS while the
secondary data was measured using DASS 21 scale. The study results were similar to the first
study, where the authors found that mindfulness sessions alleviated stress and anxiety
prevalence of study group.
Summary journal 3 &4:
Journal 3: The third journal is a study done by Gary, Shapiro and Ginny on the effect
of mindfulness-based on stress reduction among medical and premedical learners. Shapiro,
Ginny and Gary used a statistically controlled study to examine the effect mediation based
therapy on the study groups for a period of 8 weeks. The result of the study showed that
learner’s involvement in meditational exercises lowered anxious trait, level of distress among
the learners. The involved students in the mindfulness exercise also showed high spirits and
increased level of empathy. After the evaluation of the results and findings, the study
concluded that meditation as mindfulness exercises was crucial for premedical and medical
students during examination period as it reduces DASS level.
Journal 4: The fourth study reviewed in this report is the study of Burton et al.,
which evaluated the introduction of mindfulness as a clinical training strategy for the freshly
admitted social worker students. According to the study, the researchers employed a mixed
method approach in order to reach the study objective and purpose. The study investigated
how involvement of social worker students in a mindfulness training would impact them in
relation to stress, depression and anxiety. Therefore, every group of the social worker