How do individuals with spinal cord injury practice mindfulness? Barriers & facilitators to practicing mindfulness and considerations for tailoring programs
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Abstract
This qualitative study aims to understand how individuals with SCI experience and participate in mindfulness, including identifying barriers and facilitators to participation. A qualitative descriptive approach following the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) checklist was implemented. Participants partook in one-on-one telephone interviews which explored their experiences with mindfulness. Interviews were recorded and transcribed. Inductive thematic analysis was conducted using NVivo. 22 participants from the United States and Canada participated. The majority were female, between 28–67 years old. Two main themes and six sub-themes were identified. The first main theme related to perceived experiences and anticipated benefits related to practicing mindfulness (e.g. reduced muscle tension, reduced stress, social connection). Sub-themes included: physical benefits, mental benefits, social/interpersonal benefits, and mind and/or body awareness. The second main theme related to perceived barriers to practicing mindfulness (e.g. misconceptions of mindfulness, language and cues) and mitigating strategies (e.g. education, permissive rather than prescriptive language). Sub-themes included awareness and understanding of mindfulness and accessibility. Our study provides evidence for content and language that could be tailored specifically for individuals with SCI, and points to the need for general education and awareness for what mindfulness is and is not. Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) have potentially positive influences on physical, mental, social and mind and/or body awareness in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).Findings from this and similar studies can be used to develop or tailor a MBI for individuals with SCI.Implementation of MBIs can significantly enhance rehabilitation by improving psychological well-being, supporting pain management, and promoting greater engagement in therapy, while also encouraging a more holistic, patient-centered approach to clinical practice. Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) have potentially positive influences on physical, mental, social and mind and/or body awareness in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Findings from this and similar studies can be used to develop or tailor a MBI for individuals with SCI. Implementation of MBIs can significantly enhance rehabilitation by improving psychological well-being, supporting pain management, and promoting greater engagement in therapy, while also encouraging a more holistic, patient-centered approach to clinical practice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".