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MINDFULNESS AND UVB IN THE TREATMENT OF MODERATE PSORIASIS 40 The results do not support our expectations of larger Mindfulness (FFMQ-SF) scores for the intervention group, however the inter-item reliability was satisfactory at baseline. The improvement of life quality and the reduction of perceived stress and PASI was as anticipated. Mindfulness training was pleasing in terms of amount and regularity in training for the patients with approximately 12 minutes each day, which has been reported in earlier home interventions for mindfulness (Vettese et al., 2009). The design may well be suited for a bigger study, especially since the instruments behave as we expected. Results should be analyzed with caution due to low number of participants. Distress The informants acknowledged stress an aggravating factor for their disease, similarly to what another qualitative study had found (Bundy et al., 2014) . The stressful situations that were described were often related to work, everyday life, or disease in the family. These situations were repeatedly long-lasting and with no clear way of removing the stressor. (Bundy et al., 2014) . The interesting thing is that they didn’t mention their sense of coping in situations which they had perceived as more stressful than others. They issued the consequences of being in those situations over time. Some claimed that those consequences were the onset of disease and the flare-ups of psoriasis. In the belief of these circumstances, the coping of stress may well reduce the risk of worsening the disease. The problem-focused approach is not sufficient, when the stressor cannot be altered, such as the examples of disease in family, and divorce brought up by the informants. The interesting thing is that some informants didn’t mention their sense of coping in the stressful situations. That may indicate they did not applied emotional-coping under the circumstances. Some informants mentioned breathing techniques, and meditation with Yoga. These two methods may be an emotional-focused coping, where the target is not the stressor, but the physiological arousal of the stressor. The reduction of the response provided a sense of calmness, even in the presence of stress. By application of these ways of coping, you dealPDF Image | Combining Mindfulness and Ultraviolet Phototherapy (UVB
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