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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Improves Psychological Mechanisms but Fails to Reduce Burnout in Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Key finding

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) makes healthcare workers more mindful, more empathic, and less depressed — but does NOT meaningfully reduce burnout itself. Standard 8-week MBSR, the version most hospitals mandate, failed to lower burnout scores at all.

Burnout in healthcare is an organizational problem, not an individual one — hospitals using MBSR alone are treating symptoms while ignoring the workload and staffing causes.

Shown by F. Koziarz

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