Table 1.
Included studies
| Study ID | Title | Author(s) | Year | Journal | Country | Aim of the study |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #361 | A Web-Based Mindfulness Stress Management Program in a Corporate Call Center: A Randomized Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Added Benefit of Onsite Group Support | Allexandre et al. | 2016 | Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine | USA | Determine the effectiveness of an 8-week web-based, mindfulness stress management program (WSM) in a corporate call center and added benefit of group support. |
| #1378 | Mental Health and Perceived Usability of Digital Mental Health Tools among Essential Workers and Unemployed during COVID-19: A Remote Survey Study | Mata-Greve et al. | 2021 | Journal of Medical Internet Research | USA | The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of psychiatric distress in these two sectors of the community and understand how digital mental health tools (DMHT) have been used to cope with the mental health consequences of the pandemic. |
| #799 | Mindfulness on-the-go: Effects of a mindfulness meditation app on work stress and well-being | Bostock et al. | 2019 | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | UK | Investigate whether a mindfulness meditation program delivered via a smartphone application (app) could improve psychological well-being, reduce job strain, and reduce ambulatory blood pressure during the workday. |
| #337 | Alleviating staff stress in care homes for people with dementia: Protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial to evaluate a web-based Mindfulness-Stress Reduction course | Baker et al. | 2015 | BMC Psychiatry | UK | To evaluate the effectiveness of web-based mindfulness training in reducing staff stress in care homes with people living with dementia. Evaluate the effects on job satisfaction, staff attitudes to dementia, sickness absence, cost-effectiveness. |
| #3641 | Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Guided Meditation in Daily Life | Bianca Best | 2020 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | Determine the efficacy of Mindful-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) techniques specific to HCWs in acute clinical settings |
| #2990 | Targeting military healthcare providers to self-identify and take action against compassion fatigue: can mindfulness practice be the answer? | Natasha I. Best | 2019 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | 1: To assess the benefit of the use of the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) instrument, to help military clinicians self-identify risk of compassion fatigue. |
| 2: To determine if the use of an abbreviated mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program involving a mobile application and integrated web-based tools would help decrease symptoms of compassion fatigue among a targeted military clinician population. | ||||||
| #1073 | Self-compassion training within a workplace physical activity program: A pilot study | Biber et al. | 2021 | Work | USA | The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-compassion (SC) intervention within the existing workplace physical activity program. |
| #2986 | Single Case Evaluation of a Mindfulness-Based Mobile Application with a Substance Abuse Counselor | Callender et al. | 2021 | Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation | USA | To evaluate the efficacy of a mobile application (MA) as a mindfulness-based intervention, for promoting desired change across perceived levels of burnout, mindfulness, and self-compassion. |
| #3556 | The relationship between mindfulness and school leader stress | Kasey R. Coggin | 2019 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | This study will determine the effectiveness of a mindfulness smartphone application on stress levels of current K-12 principals. |
| #1428 | A Pilot Evaluation of a Smartphone Application for Workplace Depression | Collins et al. | 2020 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | Australia | This pilot study aimed to assess the usability, feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of an app-based intervention designed to target depressive symptoms in a stressed working population. |
| #490 | Digital Games and Mindfulness Apps: Comparison of Effects on Post Work Recovery | Collins et al. | 2019 | JMIR Mental Health | UK | The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the effectiveness of a digital game and mindfulness app in promoting post work recovery, first in a laboratory setting and then in a field study. |
| #1346 | Preventing depression using a smartphoneapp: a randomized controlled trial | Deady et al. | 2020 | Psychological Medicine | Australia | To evaluate the effectiveness of a new smartphone app designed to reduce depression symptoms and subsequent incident depression amongst a large group of Australian workers. |
| #460 | Mindful Self-Compassion Training Reduces Stress and Burnout Symptoms Among Practicing Psychologists: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Web-Based Intervention | Eriksson et al. | 2018 | Frontiers in Psychology | Sweden | The aims of this study were (a) to examine the effects of a 6 weeks web-based mindful self-compassion program on stress and burnout symptoms in a group of practicing psychologists, and (b) to examine relationships between changes in self-compassion and self-coldness and changes in stress and burnout symptoms. |
| #3073 | Exploring the impacts of self-compassion and psychological flexibility on burnout and engagement among animal shelter staff: A moderator analysis of the job demands-resources framework and a randomized controlled field trial of a brief self-guided online intervention | Mallory Forman Fiery | 2016 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA/CAN | A pilot randomized controlled field trial explored whether an intervention aimed at increasing selfcompassion led to decreased compassion fatigue, increased job engagement, and more psychologically flexible among staff in animal sheltering. |
| #1037 | A Mobile Phone–Based Intervention to Reduce Mental Health Problems in Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (PsyCovidApp): Randomized Controlled Trial | Fiol-DeRoque et al. | 2021 | JMIR Mental Health | Spain | Evaluate the effectiveness of a psychoeducational, mindfulness-based mHealth intervention to reduce mental health problems in health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| #3578 | Mindful Meditation Through the Use of Headspace to Reduce Medication Errors in the Obstetrical Inpatient | Suzan Lee Halt | 2020 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | To examine if or to what degree the implementation of mindful meditation through the use of the mobile application Headspace, would impact the number of documented medication errors in a population of inpatient obstetrical (OB) patients in an urban Arizona hospital over four weeks. |
| #2871 | Mind over matter: enhancing compassion satisfaction in oncology nursing | Jacob R. Haskins | 2018 | Proquest (Doctoral project) | USA | This project utilized smart phone applications to provide guided mindfulness meditations to address compassion fatigue for nurses on two-inpatient oncology units at a large academic medical center. |
| #3761 | “I Will Be Less Judgmental, More Kind, More Aware, and Resilient!”: Early Childhood Professionals’ Learnings from an Online Mindfulness Module | Hatton-Bowers et al. | 2020 | Early Childhood Education Journal | USA | Examine reactions and perceived benefits from early childhood professionals who participated in an online mindfulness and compassion focused professional development module. |
| #812 | An online mindfulness-based program is effective in improving affect, overcommitment, optimism and mucosal immunity | Heckenberg et al. | 2019 | Physiology and Behavior | Australia | Assess the efficacy of an online mindfulness-based program on both short-term and more enduring aspects of psychological and physiological measures of stress and ill-health. |
| #3943 | 6-Week Cybermeditation App Program Introduces Hospice and Palliative Care/Oncology Professionals to Meditation and Improves Professional Quality of Life | Heeter et al. | 2016 | Poster—Michigan State University | USA | Evaluate a minimally invasive 6-week cybermeditation program based on 10–12-min meditation apps involving breath, gentle movement and visualization combined with bi-weekly support emails and tested it with hospice and oncology/palliative care health care professionals. |
| #3753 | Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and its Use in Caregiver Stress Reduction | Priscilla Herzog | 2021 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | In order to further support the use of MBSR with healthcare Workers, professional caregivers of elderly patients from an in-home caregiving company participated in an eight-week online MBSR course. Different variables were measured to determine further possible causes of stress. |
| #1234 | Multimodule Web-Based COVID-19 Anxiety and Stress Resilience Training (COAST): Single-Cohort Feasibility Study With First Responders | Heyen et al. | 2021 | JMIR Formative Research | Switzerland | To develop and test the feasibility of an unguided electronic mental health program, COVID-19 Anxiety and Stress Resilience Training (COAST), tailored to first responders and health care personnel, based on scientific evidence and empirically based techniques. |
| #763 | Mindfulness-Based Resilience Training in the Workplace: Pilot Study of the Internet-Based Resilience@Work (RAW) Mindfulness Program | Joyce et al. | 2018 | Journal of Medical Internet Research | Australia | Examine whether a mindfulness-based resilience-training program delivered via the internet is feasible and engaging to a group of high-risk workers. Additionally, we aim to measure the effect of the Resilience@Work Mindfulness program on measures of resilience and related skills. |
| #842 | Resilience@Work Mindfulness Program: Results From a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial With First Responders | Joyce et al. | 2019 | Journal of Medical Internet Research | Australia | Examine whether a mindfulness-based RTP (the Resilience@Work [RAW] Mindfulness Program) delivered via the internet can effectively enhance resilience among a group of high-risk workers. |
| #3662 | Mindful eating mobile application to reduce binge eating in emergency department staff | Erin Joy Jensen | 2019 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | Determine the feasibility of using a mobile application (app) to increase mindfulness in a group of emergency department (ED) employees. |
| #517 | Brief Online Mindfulness Training: Immediate Impact | Kathi J. Kemper | 2017 | Journal of evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine | USA | For this project, we focused on 3 topics related to training in mindfulness skills: (a) Introduction to Mindfulness, (b) Mindfulness in Daily Life, and (c) Mindful Walking and Breathing. Specifically, we wanted to answer 3 questions. 1. What kinds of health professionals and trainees enroll in online mindfulness training? 2. Which of the three topics are most popular? And would those who enrolled in one topic also enroll in others? 3. Is completing an online module associated with any immediate changes in mindfulness as measured using standardized instruments? |
| #880 | Participant Engagement in and Perspectives on a Web-Based Mindfulness Intervention for 9–1-1 Telecommunicators: Multimethod Study | Kerr et al. | 2019 | Journal of Medical Internet Research | USA/CAN | Assess participant engagement in a Web-based MBI designed for 9–1-1 telecommunicators. Specifically, we sought to describe the following: (1) participant characteristics associated with intervention engagement, (2) participant perspectives on engaging with the intervention, and (3) perceived challenges and facilitators to engaging. |
| #2849 | Receptiveness of Healthcare Workers with Stress, Anxiety, or Depression to Use a Web-Based MBCT Therapeutic Intervention | Joni A. Koegel | 2017 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | Predict the receptiveness of healthcare workers who have experienced stress, anxiety, or depression within the past five years to use a web-based mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) intervention. |
| #2967 | Effects of A Mindfulness-Based Mobile Application on Empathy and Mindfulness with Psychotherapists | Sarah M. Kopencey | 2017 | Dissertations & Theses | USA | The study has two primary aims: (a) to explore the feasibility of using a mindfulness-based mobile application with practicing psychotherapists, and (b) to examine the effects of utilizing a MBMA on psychotherapists’ levels of empathy and mindfulness. |
| #3289 | Efficacy of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Reducing Burnout and Increasing Resilience in Registered Nurses Caring for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies | Erin Allyson Kopp | 2020 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | Determine the feasibility and efficacy of an abbreviated, four-week MBI in reducing burnout and increasing resilience in hematology registered nurses working at a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated cancer center. |
| #2286 | Effects of Five-Minute Mindfulness Meditation on Mental Health Care Professionals | Amy G. Lam | 2014 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | This study aimed to examine the use of five-minute mindfulness meditation to reduce the stress level and to increase the mindfulness level among mental health care professionals for seven consecutive days. |
| #1484 | Does a phone-based meditation application improve mental wellness in emergency medicine personnel? | Lambert et al. | 2020 | American Journal of Emergency Medicine | USA | Evaluate the effectiveness of a phone-based meditation application in reducing stress, depression, anxiety and burnout among EM nurses and physicians after 3 months of weekly use. |
| #2026 | Employee’s Preferences for Access to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Reduce the Risk of Depressive Relapse—A Discrete Choice Experiment | Lau et al. | 2012 | Mindfulness | CAN | To determine the stated preferences of employees from large healthcare organizations for four different MBCT delivery methods (i.e., group, online group, individual, and individual via the telephone). |
| #730 | Hospice and Palliative Care Provider Experiences with Meditation Using Mobile Applications | Lehto et al. | 2018 | Oncology Nursing Forum | USA | To evaluate perceived benefits, challenges, and recommendations following participation in a workplace mobile application– and email-based meditation research program. |
| #871 | Destress 9–1-1—an online mindfulness-based intervention in reducing stress among emergency medical dispatchers: a randomized controlled trial | Lilly et al. | 2019 | Occupational and Environmental Medicine | USA/CAN | This investigation tested the efficacy of a 7-week online mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) tailored to the EMD workforce. |
| #1437 | The use of online MBSR audio in medical staff during the COVID-19 in China | Liu et al. | 2020 | European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences | China | This study aims to survey medical staff’s acceptance of online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) during the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP), and to know some information of physical and emotional response of those medical staff who worked at the forefront of COVID-19, through the playback amount of the online MBSR training. |
| #1361 | Daily interventions and assessments: The effect of online self-compassion meditation on psychological health | Li et al. | 2021 | Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being | China | The current study aimed to use daily assessments to investigate the effect of online daily self-compassion interventions and its improvement pattern. |
| #1214 | An App-Based Workplace Mindfulness Intervention, and Its Effects Over Time | Lu et al. | 2021 | Frontiers in Psychology | Singapore | We investigated the week-to-week effects of a mindfulness intervention on emotional exhaustion, work engagement, and job satisfaction. |
| #2492 | Mindfulness as a cognitive–emotional segmentation strategy: An intervention promoting work–life balance | Michel et al. | 2014 | Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology | Germany | Design and evaluate an intervention teaching mindfulness as a cognitive–emotional segmentation strategy to promote work–life balance. |
| #3747 | Mindfulness and positive activities at work: Intervention effects on motivation-related constructs, sleep quality, and fatigue | Michel et al. | 2021 | Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology | Germany | In this study, a three-week self-instructed online intervention which combines positive activities and mindfulness was developed and evaluated using a randomized-controlled group design with employees. All exercises could be easily integrated into the daily working routine. |
| #1097 | Online Mindfulness Training Increases Well-Being, Trait Emotional Intelligence, and Workplace Competency Ratings: A Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial | Nadler et al. | 2020 | Frontiers in Psychology | USA | To assess the effectiveness of an online 8-week mindfulness-based training program in a sample of adults employed fulltime at a Fortune 100 company in the United States. |
| #1305 | Meditation app alleviates burnout and builds resilience for chaplains in hospices for older adults in Asian and African cities | Samta P. Pandya | 2021 | Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy | India | This article reports a one-year study examining the effect of a smartphone meditation app (M-App) in alleviating burnout and promoting resilience among chaplains working in hospices of older adults in Asian and African cities. |
| #520 | Online Training in Specific Meditation Practices Improves Gratitude, Well-Being, Self-Compassion, and Confidence in Providing Compassionate Care Among Health Professionals | Rao et Kemper | 2017 | Journal of evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine | USA | To determine the impact of brief, online training for health professionals in 3 types of positive emotion-generating meditation: Gratitude-focused Meditation; Positive- or Sacred-Word-focused Meditation; and Lovingkindness/Compassion-focused Meditation. |
| #331 | Evaluation of Stress and a Stress-Reduction Program Among Radiologic Technologists | Lynn Reingold | 2015 | Radiologic Technology | USA | To investigate stress levels and causes of stress among radiologic technologists and determine whether an intervention could reduce stress in a selected radiologic technologist population. |
| #1002 | Physician Anxiety and Burnout: Symptom Correlates and a Prospective Pilot Study of App-Delivered Mindfulness Training | Roy et al. | 2020 | JMIR Mental Health and U Health | USA | The aims of this study are to assess whether app-based mindfulness training can reduce anxiety in physicians and to explore if anxiety and burnout are correlated, thus leading to a reduction in both anxiety and burnout. |
| #3666 | Advanced practice registered nurse burnout and mindfulness meditation | Ashley Ruiz | 2020 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to: 1) assess burnout of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in a primary care clinic in Tucson, Arizona through Maslach Burnout Inventory for Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel (MBI-HSSMP) pre-test, 2) present use of mindfulness meditation through an online application, UCLA Mindful, 3) assess burnout of APRNs through post-test MBI-HSSMP after using phone application for seven days. |
| #3125 | Integrating Wearables in Stress Management Interventions: Promising Evidence from a Randomized Trial | Smith et al. | 2020 | International Journal of Stress Management | USA | In the current article, we evaluate whether a wearable-based stress management intervention can improve mental health outcomes. Employees drawn from a large technology corporation were randomly assigned to either a wearable-based treatment or waitlist control. |
| #4452 | Assessment of burnout with implementation of a brief mindfulness intervention in palliative care clinicians | Rachel Dianne Snyder | 2021 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | The objective of this quality improvement project was to better understand burnout levels in palliative nurse practitioners and nurses in a large inpatient, academic hospital system and to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing mindfulness meditation to reduce burnout levels. |
| #3210 | Investigating the feasibility of advanced law enforcement resilience training (ALERT): An innovative and practical intervention to enhance police mindfulness and resilience | Stephanie B. Stern | 2019 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | The current study sought to bridge a gap between police literature, research and practice by developing and testing the feasibility of using the Advanced Law Enforcement Resilience Training (A.L.E.R.T.) mobile app to help police learn and practice mindfulness skills after engaging in a brief in-person training. |
| #692 | Evaluation of a Web-Based Holistic Stress Reduction Pilot Program Among Nurse-Midwives | Erin M. Wright | 2018 | Journal of Holistic Nursing | USA | The purpose of this pilot project was to evaluate the effectiveness of a holistic, web-based program using holistic modalities for stress reduction and improved coping among certified nurse-midwives. |
| #3229 | Brief Mindfulness as a stress reduction tool for psychiatric technicians | Kia Yang | 2019 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | This study examined the use of a brief web-based mindfulness technique to reduce stress levels and increase mindfulness among psychiatric technicians. |
| #3096 | Online Mindful Stress Management for the Military: A study using a civilian population | Anthony Sorgi | 2015 | ProQuest (Doctoral project) | USA | This study examined whether an online adaptation of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) that consisted of two brief exercises (body scan and breathing) could reduce perceived stress and increase traits of mindfulness in a sample of civilian employees who experience high stress. |
| #974 | A randomized controlled trial to improve psychological detachment from work and well-being among employees: a study protocol comparing online CBT-based and mindfulness interventions | Tement et al. | 2020 | BMC Public Health | Slovenia | The current study will test the effectiveness of two different online interventions (i.e., cognitive behavioral therapy; CBT and mindfulness-based stress reduction; MBSR) on employees’ psychological detachment, burnout and other variables related to general (e.g., life satisfaction) and work-specific (e.g., work engagement) well-being. |
| #4457 | Promoting resilience in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic with a brief online intervention | DeTore et al. | 2022 | Journal of Psychiatric Research | USA | This study aimed to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a brief online course focused on introducing evidence-based skills that could increase resilience and decreases emotional distress in healthcare workers during the pandemic. |
| #4462 | The mindful lawyer: Investigating the effects of two online mindfulness programs on self-reported well-being in the legal profession | Nielsen et Minda | 2021 | Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine | CAN | Two studies were conducted to determine whether mindfulness meditation could be an effective tool for improving well-being among legal professionals—a population plagued by high rates of depression, anxiety, and stress. |
| #4463 | Acceptability of a real-time notification of stress and access to self-help therapies among law enforcement officers | Jetelina et al. | 2022 | BMC Public Health | USA | This study tests the acceptability of implementing of a brief, smartwatch intervention to alleviate stress among LEOs. |