Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, Department of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.
Stress Health. 2013 Aug;29(3):199-204. doi: 10.1002/smi.2446. Epub 2012 Sep 7.
A number of studies have demonstrated that short-term meditation intervention can lead to greater tolerance and lower pain or distress ratings of experimentally induced pain. However, few attempts have been made to examine the effects of short-term mindfulness-based intervention on the tolerance and distress of pain, when delivered in a therapist-free form. The present research explored the effect of brief mindfulness intervention using pre-recorded instruction on pain experimentally induced by the cold-pressor task. The effects of the mindfulness strategy, the distraction strategy and spontaneous strategy, all through the instructions of pre-recorded voices, were compared. The subjects were drawn from healthy college students and randomly assigned to the aforementioned three groups. Our results showed that compared with using spontaneous strategies, the mindfulness intervention significantly improved the participants' pain tolerance and reduced their immersion distress. The distraction strategy also significantly improved the participants' pain tolerance. However, it did not have a significant effect on the participants' level of distress during the immersion period. Our results suggest that brief mindfulness intervention without a therapist's personal involvement is capable of helping people cope with pain induced by the cold-pressor task.
一些研究表明，短期冥想干预可以提高对实验性诱发疼痛的耐受性和降低疼痛或痛苦评分。然而，很少有尝试来检验短期正念为基础的干预对疼痛的耐受性和痛苦的影响，当以无治疗师的形式提供。本研究使用预录指导探讨了简短正念干预对冷加压任务引起的实验性疼痛的影响。比较了正念策略、分心策略和自发策略的效果，所有这些策略都是通过预录声音的指导进行的。研究对象来自健康的大学生，并随机分配到上述三个组。我们的结果表明，与使用自发策略相比，正念干预显著提高了参与者的疼痛耐受性，并降低了他们的沉浸痛苦。分心策略也显著提高了参与者的疼痛耐受性。然而，它对参与者在沉浸期间的痛苦水平没有显著影响。我们的结果表明，没有治疗师个人参与的简短正念干预能够帮助人们应对冷加压任务引起的疼痛。
