Mindfulness Meditation: An Interventional Tool to Attenuate Cardiovascular Reactivity to Mental Stress in Undergraduate Medical Students.

IF 0.7 Q3 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL

Annals of African Medicine Pub Date : 2026-04-16 DOI:10.4103/aam.aam_660_25

Ragini Rajappa, Ved Prakash Varshney, Mona Bedi

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Abstract

Background: We studied the effect of the single bout mindfulness meditation on cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to acute mental stress to devise a method to assess and attenuate mental stress among Indian undergraduate medical students.

Methodology: This was a pre- and post-comparative interventional study conducted in thirty healthy male undergraduate medical students. Anthropometric measurements, heart rate (HR), and blood pressure readings were recorded during the assessment. These participants are selected based on age criteria, weight, history of morbidity, and history of prior exposure to mindfulness meditation.

Results: Data of Premindfulness meditation reactivity (T1-R1) and Post mindfulness meditation reactivity (T2-R2) were compared and analyzed for significance to draw conclusion. Systolic blood pressure reactivity, when compared between Pre-Mindfulness Meditation reactivity (T1-R1) and Postmindfulness Meditation reactivity (T2-R2), showed statistically significant results with P < 0.01, with no significance seen between diastolic blood pressure reactivity and HR reactivity. A significant difference in systolic blood pressure reactivity after mindfulness meditation intervention points toward the role of mindfulness meditation in decreasing CVR reactivity as opposed to increased CVR reactivity seen during mental stress without intervention.

Conclusion: This concludes that mindfulness meditation influences CVR reactivity to mental stress even as a one-time Intervention.

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正念冥想：一种减轻医科大学生心血管对心理压力反应的介入工具。

背景：我们研究了单次正念冥想对心血管反应性（CVR）对急性精神压力的影响，以设计一种评估和减轻印度医科本科生精神压力的方法。方法：这是一项在30名健康男性医科本科生中进行的介入前和介入后比较研究。在评估期间记录人体测量、心率（HR）和血压读数。这些参与者是根据年龄标准、体重、发病史和之前接触正念冥想的历史来选择的。结果：对正念冥想前反应性（T1-R1）与正念冥想后反应性（T2-R2）数据进行比较分析，得出有意义的结论。正念冥想前的收缩压反应性（T1-R1）与正念冥想后的收缩压反应性（T2-R2）比较，P < 0.01有统计学意义，舒张压反应性与HR反应性差异无统计学意义。正念冥想干预后收缩压反应性的显著差异表明，正念冥想在降低CVR反应性方面的作用，而不是在没有干预的精神压力下观察到的CVR反应性增加。结论：正念冥想即使作为一次性干预，也会影响CVR对精神压力的反应。

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