Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-03-04DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2501011
Nicole E Mahrer, Gabrielle R Rinne, Christine M Guardino, Danielle A Swales, Madeleine Ullman Shalowitz, Sharon Landesman Ramey, Christine Dunkel Schetter
Certain observable parenting behaviors contribute to the risk of children developing internalizing and externalizing problems. Yet parenting behaviors do not affect all children uniformly and effects may depend on identifiable child characteristics. One factor is a child's biological sensitivity to the caregiving environment, an indicator of which is a stress hormone, cortisol. This longitudinal study examines two dimensions of observable parenting behaviors, responsive and rejecting/harsh. These parenting behaviors and child cortisol awakening response (CAR) were measured during home visits in a sample of 100 mostly low-income White and Latina/Hispanic mothers and their children at ages 4-6. Children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors were assessed one year later. We tested the effects of responsive and harsh/rejecting parenting on child internalizing and externalizing and examined child CAR as a moderator. Results indicated that responsive parenting predicted better child mental health as indexed by fewer internalizing and externalizing behaviors, whereas harsh/rejecting parenting predicted more internalizing behaviors. Harsh/rejecting parenting interacted with child CAR such that harsh/rejecting parenting predicted more externalizing only among children with low CAR; there was no interaction of responsive parenting with child CAR. These results elucidate how child CAR may shape mental health outcomes associated with harsh/rejecting parenting.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-07DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2503035
Ryan S Wexler, Natasha Parman, Devon J Fox, Danielle ZuZero, Anand Parikshak, Sophia Kwin, Austin R Thompson, Hans L Carlson, Thomas Kern, Scott D Mist, Ryan Bradley, Heather Zwickey, Courtney K Pickworth
Lumbosacral radicular pain (LRP) is a common sequelae of low back pain, the world's leading cause of years lived with disability. LRP typically causes numbness, weakness, and tingling into the lower extremity and is associated with high rates of pain and impaired function. Despite its prevalence, there is significant heterogeneity among clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of LRP, which may contribute to poor patient outcomes. The aim of the present study was to identify treatments that participants had previously attempted before enrolling in a randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention. This analysis evaluated prior pharmaceutical use, procedures, and non-pharmacologic treatments, with a special focus on complementary and integrative health (CIH) utilization. The data for the present analysis were taken from the health history form of the baseline visit for the randomized controlled trial by Wexler et al 2024. Treatment utilization was evaluated and reported using descriptive characteristics. In this sample of chronic LRP patients (n = 71), we found a high proportion of CIH utilization, including acupuncture (58%), chiropractic care (58%), and herbs/supplements (42%). Most patients (52%) were utilizing two or more CIH modalities to manage their pain. A high percentage of participants had also previously used non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (61%) to manage their pain, and over a third of participants had previously undergone an epidural steroid injection (34%). In our trial, CIH utilization was much higher for treatments like chiropractic care, acupuncture, natural products, and physical activity than has been reported in previous large datasets of patients with chronic pain such as the National Health Interview Survey. Collecting data on CIH utilization in clinical trials can enable researchers to compare their samples to large national datasets and identify differences in use among specific populations. In addition, healthcare utilization data collected in clinical trials can further inform the development of clinical practice guidelines.
{"title":"Treatment Choices and Healthcare Services Utilization Amongst Lumbosacral Radiculopathy Patients: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.","authors":"Ryan S Wexler, Natasha Parman, Devon J Fox, Danielle ZuZero, Anand Parikshak, Sophia Kwin, Austin R Thompson, Hans L Carlson, Thomas Kern, Scott D Mist, Ryan Bradley, Heather Zwickey, Courtney K Pickworth","doi":"10.21926/obm.icm.2503035","DOIUrl":"10.21926/obm.icm.2503035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lumbosacral radicular pain (LRP) is a common sequelae of low back pain, the world's leading cause of years lived with disability. LRP typically causes numbness, weakness, and tingling into the lower extremity and is associated with high rates of pain and impaired function. Despite its prevalence, there is significant heterogeneity among clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of LRP, which may contribute to poor patient outcomes. The aim of the present study was to identify treatments that participants had previously attempted before enrolling in a randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention. This analysis evaluated prior pharmaceutical use, procedures, and non-pharmacologic treatments, with a special focus on complementary and integrative health (CIH) utilization. The data for the present analysis were taken from the health history form of the baseline visit for the randomized controlled trial by Wexler et al 2024. Treatment utilization was evaluated and reported using descriptive characteristics. In this sample of chronic LRP patients (<i>n</i> = 71), we found a high proportion of CIH utilization, including acupuncture (58%), chiropractic care (58%), and herbs/supplements (42%). Most patients (52%) were utilizing two or more CIH modalities to manage their pain. A high percentage of participants had also previously used non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (61%) to manage their pain, and over a third of participants had previously undergone an epidural steroid injection (34%). In our trial, CIH utilization was much higher for treatments like chiropractic care, acupuncture, natural products, and physical activity than has been reported in previous large datasets of patients with chronic pain such as the National Health Interview Survey. Collecting data on CIH utilization in clinical trials can enable researchers to compare their samples to large national datasets and identify differences in use among specific populations. In addition, healthcare utilization data collected in clinical trials can further inform the development of clinical practice guidelines.</p>","PeriodicalId":74333,"journal":{"name":"OBM integrative and complimentary medicine","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12346153/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144849979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2304050
Robert Capizzi, Heather Mary Kempton
Relationships between nature connection, mindfulness and wellbeing have been observed through nature based therapeutic interventions, where mindfulness and nature appear to reciprocally influence each other in relation to wellbeing and is potentially consistent with attention restoration theory. However, previous studies have relied on examining nature based interventions rather than the role of nature connection in everyday lives. This investigation explored the relationship between nature connection, mindfulness, and wellbeing within a general population sample in Auckland, New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants (n = 472) completed a survey questionnaire measuring nature connectedness (CNS), hedonic and eudemonic wellbeing (PANAS and MLQ), stress (PSS), and mindfulness (FFMQ). Given mindfulness consists of interrelated practices and the relationship between mindfulness and nature connection is thought to be reciprocal, an EBIC GLASSO network was constructed to investigate the pathways between nature connection, mindfulness, and wellbeing. The FFMQ subscale of Observing was central to the network in terms of closeness and betweenness and had a strong correlation with CNS where it bridged CNS and wellbeing scales. This study demonstrates that individuals in their daily lives show relationships between nature connection, mindfulness, and wellbeing, and indicates that the Observing aspect of mindfulness might be useful for harnessing nature connection and wellbeing effects.
{"title":"Nature Connection, Mindfulness, and Wellbeing: A Network Analysis","authors":"Robert Capizzi, Heather Mary Kempton","doi":"10.21926/obm.icm.2304050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.2304050","url":null,"abstract":"Relationships between nature connection, mindfulness and wellbeing have been observed through nature based therapeutic interventions, where mindfulness and nature appear to reciprocally influence each other in relation to wellbeing and is potentially consistent with attention restoration theory. However, previous studies have relied on examining nature based interventions rather than the role of nature connection in everyday lives. This investigation explored the relationship between nature connection, mindfulness, and wellbeing within a general population sample in Auckland, New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants (n = 472) completed a survey questionnaire measuring nature connectedness (CNS), hedonic and eudemonic wellbeing (PANAS and MLQ), stress (PSS), and mindfulness (FFMQ). Given mindfulness consists of interrelated practices and the relationship between mindfulness and nature connection is thought to be reciprocal, an EBIC GLASSO network was constructed to investigate the pathways between nature connection, mindfulness, and wellbeing. The FFMQ subscale of Observing was central to the network in terms of closeness and betweenness and had a strong correlation with CNS where it bridged CNS and wellbeing scales. This study demonstrates that individuals in their daily lives show relationships between nature connection, mindfulness, and wellbeing, and indicates that the Observing aspect of mindfulness might be useful for harnessing nature connection and wellbeing effects.","PeriodicalId":74333,"journal":{"name":"OBM integrative and complimentary medicine","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135634270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2304049
Vsevolod Konstantinov, Pavel Ustin, Leonid Popov
The negative psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the forced isolation of a large proportion of people worldwide have demonstrated the need to develop ways and technologies to reduce the effects of sudden threats of this type. The basis of any practical work to minimize the negative psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic associated with substance use is the monitoring and diagnosis of the psychological resources of the individual. The article aims to show the possibilities of predicting the behavior of an individual through the content analysis of posts and reposts of their profile on the social network VKontakte on the example of the propensity to use psychoactive substances and to substantiate the possibilities of optimizing and automating such prediction through the use of category markers. Content analysis was carried out by latent semantic analysis of texts extracted from posts and reposts of VKontakte social network users with subsequent content analysis through selecting markers - category words. As a result, a categorical grid was built, which increases the efficiency of content analysis of posts and reposts of users and is suitable for further automation of such research by machine learning methods.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2304048
Nabila Enam, Sara Benham, Nancy Green
This studyexamined the effects of virtual mindfulness meditation programming on sleep efficiency using wearable tracking devices, as well as effects on sleep quality and perceived stress in higher education students.A one-group, pretest-posttest design with convenience sampling and rolling recruitment over a six-month period resulted in twenty-five participants who completed the study and were included in data analysis. Paired t-tests were used to determine statistical significance for sleep efficiency measured using the Fitbit Inspire 2, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) global score, and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) total scores. Significance was observed in positive outcomes for sleep quality (p = 0.010) and perceived stress (p = 0.032). Sleep efficiency resulted in no significant change (p = 0.063). The synchronous virtual program had a positive effect on the sleep quality and perceived stress; however, the use of wearables should be integrated with caution. Higher education students and professionals at higher education institutions may consider non-pharmacological approaches to treating stress and sleep.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2304047
Claire Marie Rangon, Gerhard Litscher, Robert Bering, Gary Stanton, Anne Marie Bering, Stephen W. Porges Porges, Raphael Nogier
Conference ReportReport from the 11th International Symposium on Auriculotherapy Held in Copenhagen, 8-10 September 2023 - Auriculotherapy meets the field of PsychologyClaire Marie Rangon 1, Gerhard Litscher 2, *, Robert Bering 3, Gary Stanton 4, Anne Marie Bering 5, Stephen W. Porges 6, 7, Raphaël Nogier 8* Correspondence: Gerhard Litscher; E-Mail: gerhard.litscher@medunigraz.atOBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine2023, volume 8, issue 4doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2304047Received: October 19, 2023Accepted: October 25, 2023Published: October 26, 2023
2023年9月8日至10日在哥本哈根举行的第十一届国际听觉疗法研讨会报告<strong> -听觉疗法与心理学领域的会面</strong>Claire Marie Rangon <sup>1</sup>， Gerhard Litscher <sup>2， *</sup>， Robert Bering <sup>3</sup>， Gary Stanton <sup>， Anne Marie Bering <sup>， 5</sup>， Stephen W. Porges <， 6,7 <，Raphaël Nogier <sup>8</sup>* <strong>通信:</strong>Gerhard Litscher;E-Mail: <a href="mailto:gerhard.litscher@medunigraz.at">gerhard.litscher@medunigraz.at</a><em>OBM综合与补充医学</em>2023，卷8，第4期doi:10.21926/ OBM .icm.2304047<strong>收到:</strong>2023年10月19日<strong>接受:</strong>2023年10月25日<strong>发布日期:</strong>2023年10月26日
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Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2304045
Michael Franklin
Art therapy, imaginal mindfulness, yoga, and meditation were personal and collegial necessities for surviving the emotional fallout of isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Combining these practices offered us credible resources for enhancing our social, cultural, and spiritual wellness when faced with the loneliness of lockdown living. This article applies an autoethnographic lens highlighting the value of these contemplative tools for managing pandemic related distress within myself and my professional peer group. The material gathered for this article is based on the authenticity of personal, smaller samples of shared, self-described observational phenomena. While these points were not formally studied with a review of scientific samples, the pandemic encouraged innovative forms of social communication between me, colleagues, and graduate students studying art therapy. Consequently, the information presented was consistently observed and shared between these professional communities. Self-reported findings from my confreres suggested outcomes of interiorized self-regulation skills such as focused attention, inner friendship/self-compassion, and witness awareness resulting from joining art with contemplative practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2304046
Poppy L.A. Schoenberg
The digital transformation of healthcare is accelerating. At the forefront of this revolution is the development of the "metaverse." This multidimensional digital universe, where virtual and physical realities converge, is reshaping the potential of integrative and complementary medicine. In this special edition journal series, we explore how metaverse technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, avatars, digital twins, blockchain smart contracts, and more, are poised to revolutionize holistic healthcare. This article serves as a brief introduction to concepts, domains, and technologies of the metaverse, with scope for integrative and complementary medicine applications. It provides a groundwork and invitation for scholars to join this transformative frontier in healthcare, where the metaverse and integrative medicine unite to offer new dimensions for holistic well-being. Together, we explore the endless possibilities of "Welcoming the Metaverse in Integrative and Complementary Medicine," bridging the gap between the digital and the holistic for a more inclusive, diverse, and interconnected future of healthcare and wellbeing.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2304044
Katie Lahue, Eliana Rivera, Sara Schmidt
The COVID-19 pandemic presented a host of issues for hospitalized patients including increased anxiety, fear, isolation, and depression [1]. Expressive Therapies have been used in the pediatric medical setting for decades to support patients and families with coping, expression, processing, and rehabilitation [2-5]. Additionally, some studies suggest that Expressive Therapies were effective in helping ease the increase in mental health symptoms that occurred during the pandemic. During the pandemic the expressive therapies team at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah had to drastically shift their care to meet the increased safety requirements needed to prevent infection. This brought significant barriers and opportunities for learning [6]. There is a lack of research to understand the experience of expressive therapists during the pandemic. The authors aimed to understand this experience through an arts-based research lens using art to reflect on a patient relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic [7]. The authors then engaged in a witnessing process that was recorded and transcribed by the authors to search for themes [8-10] that described the authors’ experience of being an expressive therapist during that time. The six themes derived from the transcriptions were Extremes, Space, Back and Forth, Together, Exploration, and Unknown.
{"title":"The Exploration of the Experience of Expressive Therapies in a Pediatric Medical Setting in the COVID-19 Pandemic through Arts-Based Research","authors":"Katie Lahue, Eliana Rivera, Sara Schmidt","doi":"10.21926/obm.icm.2304044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.2304044","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic presented a host of issues for hospitalized patients including increased anxiety, fear, isolation, and depression [1]. Expressive Therapies have been used in the pediatric medical setting for decades to support patients and families with coping, expression, processing, and rehabilitation [2-5]. Additionally, some studies suggest that Expressive Therapies were effective in helping ease the increase in mental health symptoms that occurred during the pandemic. During the pandemic the expressive therapies team at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah had to drastically shift their care to meet the increased safety requirements needed to prevent infection. This brought significant barriers and opportunities for learning [6]. There is a lack of research to understand the experience of expressive therapists during the pandemic. The authors aimed to understand this experience through an arts-based research lens using art to reflect on a patient relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic [7]. The authors then engaged in a witnessing process that was recorded and transcribed by the authors to search for themes [8-10] that described the authors’ experience of being an expressive therapist during that time. The six themes derived from the transcriptions were Extremes, Space, Back and Forth, Together, Exploration, and Unknown.","PeriodicalId":74333,"journal":{"name":"OBM integrative and complimentary medicine","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135322562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A therapeutic intervention combines guided imagery and hypnotic techniques (including self-hypnosis), direct and indirect suggestions, medical treatments, and highly improving patient condition. A variety of hypnotic intervention techniques were introduced to treat a highly hypnotizable patient suffering from an advanced organic brain disorder due to an autoimmune disease and resistant to traditional medicine, showing no improvement despite being highly motivated and cooperating with conventional measures. Progress in the Patient's condition and symptoms has been achieved during these hypnotic interventions: increased appetite and weight gain with a decrease in symptoms of gastroparesis, decreased limb spasticity while walking, improved speech and pronunciation, improved muscular power, improved balance and posture, pain diminution and improved mood.
{"title":"Using Hypnotic Techniques and Guided Imagery in Treatment of a Highly Hypnosible Woman with Slowly Progressing Chronic Organic Brain Disorder: A Case Study","authors":"Natali Lioubashevski, Netzer Daie, Yoram Finkelstein, Eliezer Witztum","doi":"10.21926/obm.icm.2304043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.2304043","url":null,"abstract":"A therapeutic intervention combines guided imagery and hypnotic techniques (including self-hypnosis), direct and indirect suggestions, medical treatments, and highly improving patient condition. A variety of hypnotic intervention techniques were introduced to treat a highly hypnotizable patient suffering from an advanced organic brain disorder due to an autoimmune disease and resistant to traditional medicine, showing no improvement despite being highly motivated and cooperating with conventional measures. Progress in the Patient's condition and symptoms has been achieved during these hypnotic interventions: increased appetite and weight gain with a decrease in symptoms of gastroparesis, decreased limb spasticity while walking, improved speech and pronunciation, improved muscular power, improved balance and posture, pain diminution and improved mood.","PeriodicalId":74333,"journal":{"name":"OBM integrative and complimentary medicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135617294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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