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The Lived Experience of Participating in Online Peer-To-Peer Groups After Acquired Brain Injury: Phenomenological Study

The Lived Experience of Participating in Online Peer-To-Peer Groups After Acquired Brain Injury: Phenomenological Study

They could also share insights based on a long-term perspective, and they often conveyed compassion and hope to support the self-compassion of others. ...Then I wrote, if I won’t be able to drive again, then I got tips and advice there. And many who had to wait, and some did not get it (driver’s license) back at all.

Malin Tistad, Lill Hultman, Annica Wohlin Wottrich, Lena von Koch

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e67658

Digital Mindfulness Training for Burnout Reduction in Physicians: Clinician-Driven Approach

Digital Mindfulness Training for Burnout Reduction in Physicians: Clinician-Driven Approach

In addition, a meta-analysis found that MT also increases self-compassion in health care providers, with moderate to high effect sizes [45]. Self-compassion involves being touched by one’s own distress and being motivated to alleviate it with kindness and understanding [46,47]. It has been theorized that self-compassion is pertinent to physicians’ well-being at work and care for patients [48], as it was inversely associated with burnout and empathy fatigue among health care professionals [49-52].

Lia Antico, Judson Brewer

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e63197

The Relationship Between Self-Compassion and Resilience in the General Population: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

The Relationship Between Self-Compassion and Resilience in the General Population: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

One such potential protective factor is self-compassion [16]. Self-compassion refers to treating oneself with warmth and kindness in the face of failures, personal inadequacies, or adversities [17]. According to the self-compassion framework developed by Neff [18], self-compassion contains six components distributed across three dimensions, which are (1) self-kindness versus self-judgment, (2) common humanity versus isolation, and (3) mindfulness versus over-identification.

Xinyi Li, Melina Aikaterini Malli, Theodore D Cosco, Guangyu Zhou

JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e60154

Patient and Provider Experiences With Compassionate Care in Virtual Physiatry: Qualitative Study

Patient and Provider Experiences With Compassionate Care in Virtual Physiatry: Qualitative Study

This potentially puts providers at higher risk for burnout and compassion fatigue [18], especially concerning given that physiatrists are the third most burnt out medical specialty in North America [19]. The widespread implementation of virtual care presents an opportune time to explore the emerging intersection of compassion and telemedicine.

Marina B Wasilewski, Abirami Vijayakumar, Zara Szigeti, Amanda Mayo, Laura Desveaux, James Shaw, Sander L Hitzig, Robert Simpson

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e51878

mHealth Gratitude Exercise Mindfulness App for Resiliency Among Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Staff: Three-Arm Pretest-Posttest Interventional Study

mHealth Gratitude Exercise Mindfulness App for Resiliency Among Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Staff: Three-Arm Pretest-Posttest Interventional Study

Compassion fatigue (CF), burnout (BO), and high stress are conditions that can become overwhelming burdens and can cause physical, mental, and emotional difficulties [2,3]. For example, nurses affected by CF may experience dissatisfaction with care, decreased empathy, intolerance to patients, medical mistakes, and leaving the profession [4]. CF and BO may cause a wide range of physical, emotional, and work-related problems that affect both the caregiver and the patient.

Neil E Peterson, Michael Thomas, Stacie Hunsaker, Tevin Stewart, Claire J Collett

JMIR Nursing 2024;7:e54561

Design and Implementation of a Brief Digital Mindfulness and Compassion Training App for Health Care Professionals: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Design and Implementation of a Brief Digital Mindfulness and Compassion Training App for Health Care Professionals: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

These prompts were designed per guidance from the Compassion Cultivation Training program [40] and included (1) settling the mind, (2) compassion for a loved one, (3) compassion for oneself, (4) loving kindness for oneself, (5) embracing common humanity, (6) embracing common humanity continued, (7) cultivating compassion for oneself and others, (8) cultivating compassion for others continued, (9) active compassion, and (10) integrated compassion cultivation practice.

Satish Jaiswal, Suzanna R Purpura, James K Manchanda, Jason Nan, Nihal Azeez, Dhakshin Ramanathan, Jyoti Mishra

JMIR Ment Health 2024;11:e49467

Boosting Empathy and Compassion Through Mindfulness-Based and Socioemotional Dyadic Practice: Randomized Controlled Trial With App-Delivered Trainings

Boosting Empathy and Compassion Through Mindfulness-Based and Socioemotional Dyadic Practice: Randomized Controlled Trial With App-Delivered Trainings

Similarly, other studies have shown that, although both mindfulness-based and compassion-based interventions confer benefits on self-compassion, compassion-based approaches have an advantage in promoting compassion toward others [44,50]. In the Re Source project, the sociocognitive Perspective module, with a focus on meta-cognitive abilities and perspective taking, rather than the compassion-based Affect module, could specifically improve theory of mind (To M) [4].

Sarita Silveira, Malvika Godara, Tania Singer

J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e45027

Building Compassionate Experience Through Compassionate Action: Qualitative Behavioral Analysis

Building Compassionate Experience Through Compassionate Action: Qualitative Behavioral Analysis

Compassion is a widely reflected health system value that supports the sustainability of high-quality patient care [9] and increased patient autonomy and satisfaction [10]. It is also an explicit core value in primary care and family medicine [11], where longitudinal relationships built on compassionate care are the key to clinical effectiveness.

Laura Desveaux, Kelly Wu, Geneviève Rouleau, Diya Srinivasan, Rhea Azavedo, Marlena Dang Nguyen, Danielle Martin, Carolyn Steele Gray

JMIR Form Res 2023;7:e43981

Measurement of Humanity Among Health Professionals: Development and Validation of the Medical Humanity Scale Using the Delphi Method

Measurement of Humanity Among Health Professionals: Development and Validation of the Medical Humanity Scale Using the Delphi Method

This study included designing the MHS to assess the integration of 7 core human values in health professional students: respect, empathy, altruism, acceptance, consideration, appreciation, and compassion. Each of the 27 items in the scale evaluates multiple values simultaneously, providing a comprehensive assessment of the participant’s overall humanistic approach to patient care. The values are not treated as separate dimensions but rather as a unified block of humanistic traits.

Jawdat Ataya, Issam Jamous, Mayssoon Dashash

JMIR Form Res 2023;7:e44241