Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

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• 2021· JACEP Open· Empirical
  Azizoddin, Desiree R.; Kvaternik, Noelia; Zhou, Guohai; Hasdianda, Mohammad Adrian; Johnsky, Lily; Im, Dana; Boyer, Edward W.; Beck, Meghan; Jones, Natasha; Chai, Peter R. (2021). Heal the Healers: A pilot study evaluating the feasibility, acceptability, and exploratory efficacy of a Transcendental Meditation intervention for emergency clinicians during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. JACEP Open, 2(6), e12619.

  Single-arm pilot study of a three-month Transcendental Meditation intervention for 32 emergency physicians, nurses and physician assistants at two urban hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing feasibility, burnout and psychological health.

  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: Thirty-two emergency clinicians (physicians, nurses and physician assistants) at two urban hospitals learned Transcendental Meditation during the COVID-19 pandemic; 90.6% attended at least six of eight training sessions.
  • Psychological Health: Participants showed significant reductions in burnout (Cohen's d = 0.43–0.45) and in symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress and sleep disturbance (d = 0.70–0.87) over three months.
  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: This was a single-arm pilot without a control group, so improvements cannot be attributed to TM alone.
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