RT Journal Article
T1 Mindfulness in primary care healthcare and teaching professionals and its relationship with stress at work: a multicentric cross-sectional study
A1 Magallón-Botaya, Rosa
A1 Pérula-de Torres, Luis Angel
A1 Verdes-Montenegro Atalaya, Juan Carlos
A1 Pérula-Jiménez, Celia
A1 Lietor-Villajos, Norberto
A1 Bartolomé-Moreno, Cruz
A1 Garcia-Campayo, Javier
A1 Moreno-Martos, Herminia
K1 Mindfulness
K1 Work stress
K1 Subjective well-being
K1 Primary health care professionals
K1 Health services research
K1 Atención plena
K1 Estrés laboral
K1 Satisfacción personal
K1 Atención primaria de salud
K1 Investigación sobre servicios de salud
AB Background: Work stress is a common problem among the health personnel of the Spanish National Health System. The objective of this paper is to assess the state of mindfulness among Spanish primary care providers and to evaluate its potential relationship with work stress and basic labor and sociodemographic characteristics. Methods: Cross-sectional, multi-centric study. Primary care nurses, teachers, teaching collaborators and residents assigned to six Spanish Family Medicine/Family and Community Care Departments were invited to participate (n = 475). A template was designed in Google Forms, including sociodemographic and work-related variables. The state of mindfulness was measured with the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), while work-related stress was measured using an ordinal scale ranging from 0 to 10 points. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were carried out, as well as bivariate and multivariate statistics. Results: The mean age of participants was 40,14 ± 13.12 (range:23–65 years); 66.9% were women, 42.5% internal medicine residents, 29.3% family physicians, and 20.2% nurses. More than half (54.5%) knew about mindfulness, with 24.0% have received training on it, and 22.5% were usual practitioners. The average level of mindfulness was 127.18 ± 15.45 (range: 89–177). The average score of stress at work was 6.00 ± 2.44; 49.9% (range: 0–10). 49.9% of participants scored 7 or more on the stress at work scale. There was an inverse correlation between the levels of mindfulness (FFMQ total score) and work-related stress (Spearman’s r = − 0.155, p = 0.003). Significant relationships between the mindfulness practice and the level of mindfulness (F = 29.80, p < 0.001), as well as between the mindfulness practice and the level of work-related stress (F = 9.68, p = 0.042), were also found. Conclusions: Levels of mindfulness in primary care health providers were in line with those levels observed in other groups of health professionals. Half of all of the primary care providers suffered from a high degree of stress. Although weak, inverse relationships were observed between levels of mindfulness and stress at work, with lower values of stress at work among those who practiced mindfulness.
PB BioMed Central, Springer Nature
YR 2021
FD 2021-02-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/4575
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/4575
LA en
NO Magallón-Botaya R, Pérula-de Torres LA, Verdes-Montenegro Atalaya JC, Pérula-Jiménez C, Lietor-Villajos N, Bartolomé-Moreno C, et al. Mindfulness in primary care healthcare and teaching professionals and its relationship with stress at work: a multicentric cross-sectional study. BMC Fam Pract. 2021 Feb 2;22(1):29
NO Trial registration: NCT03629457.
DS RISalud
RD Apr 6, 2025