Background
Caregiver Burden
Mindfulness Interventions
Compliance with Ethical Standards
Methods
Intervention
Week-wise contents (1 step per week) |
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(1) The breathing body |
(2) Being present in the body |
(3) Mindfulness in life and movement |
(4) Compassion with the self - acceptance |
(5) Wonderful pleasure |
(6) Being whole |
(7) Compassion with others |
(8) To live with the possibility of choosing |
Participants
Data Collection and Analysis
Results
A Timely or Untimely Intervention
Caregiver and Life Situation
When one maybe needed it the most, it was most difficult to make the time. (P7)In this situation, it was very good for me.//I could get away, lie there, and listen to his voice. (P10)
Expectations and Relevance
I appreciate these moments that were only for myself. (P1)
The funniest thing is that I, in the beginning, was like… no, this is just one of these bluff things, it doesn’t work.//So it was extra fun to try it now.//And to feel that it works. (P3)
Once further into the training it was easier for me to let go of all the other things//that’s also what I was wishing for, not to dwell on things so much.//…that thing with my brooding and worrying for everything//It felt like it targeted these problems. (P7)
I had this relaxed feeling//and it motivated me to proceed with the training. (P6)
Mainly Positive Effects Even at Low Levels of Training
Beneficial Effects of Training
So I told him, now you have to be quiet because I am concentrating, I am doing my exercises//it was a way for him too to accept that I was lying down.//I think I feel guilty//…I create strange rules//it made it easier to change that. (P3)After a few weeks, I felt//ah, that’s agreeable…//to get away for a while and do it. (P7)
If the me is in the stomach somehow, it’s small and often vulnerable. But when I do one of these three things (work out, yoga or mindfulness), it gets bigger and more stable. (P4)If one gets more attention and reaches a calmness, and can handle the situation differently, it gets better. (P8)
I feel calmer//It feels as if I reflect more before I get going, so to say.//I think more before I act… do I really need to worry about this? (P3)
//one accepts that it’s the way it is now, and that we now need to find something more constructive than getting stuck in the negative.//Both my husband and I experienced that it made things simpler. (P1)
When one does things day after day//or things one is expected to do, or thinks one should do, one has one kind of life. But when one makes a halt and does a thing like this (mindfulness), one discovers that…//there is a possibility for another existence. (P4)I am more content with life, well, with myself and it changes things… because otherwise, one always tries to fulfill others’ needs. Now I try to fulfill my own instead. (P3)
Negative Effects of Training
I am never going to make the training in ten weeks, how will it go? (P4)
Relationship to the Patient
Yes, naturally (effect on relationship), in the sense that I don’t get angry in the same way. (P6)Then I was calmer and a bit more compassionate. (P7)
Perhaps not my situation as a caregiver, but it has affected me as a person maybe. (P8)
Creating a Training Routine and Maintaining Motivation
Creating a Routine, More or Less Challenging
It takes time to create a routine. (P8)In the beginning, I had to remind myself. But now, now it has become more like a routine. (P1)
For me it’s good. That they’re short (the meditations)//because it’s easier to integrate into daily life. (P10)It was too difficult to uphold the pace. (P5)
A Flexible and Accessible Intervention
It’s feasible wherever and whenever one wants. (P2)
It might have been useful, at a few occasions//to talk to a real person, to regain motivation,//in a more tangible way know how to handle it and make time for the training//. (P5)
Repetition and Familiarity as Motivators and Hinders
It oughtn’t be new or varied, one should do it again and again, because it settles//when it’s the same meditation, one discovers oh… I hadn’t heard that//…one discovers new things after a while. (P1)
Suggestions to Boost the Program
He (the instructor/voice) could pause. So one winds down.//I would recommend a silent moment. (P10)The advice, yes, I thought it was rather motivating.//One got a better understanding… yes, this was what this exercise was for, what one should think about… (P7)