Roxane Chan

• RN, PhD, AHN-BC, LMT
• Owner at Chan Body Energy LLC

The current pre- and posttest intervention study is designed for individuals with chronic symptoms and stress associated with mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI). The researchers' intent was to evaluate whether an 8-week mindfulness-based group therapy compared to health promotion active control group therapy reduces chronic stress, TBI s...

Background: While much research and practice resources have addressed smoking cessation among cancer patients, less emphasis has been placed on personal psychological and environment factors associated with smoking at the time of diagnosis. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine differences in psychological distress, optimism, and perce...

Background: For persons with chronic disease, participation in meditation interventions can reduce anxiety, depression, and chronic disease symptoms in a dose dependent fashion. Unfortunately, information about how to support long-term participation in such an intervention is lacking. Therefore, a recent discovery of persons with chronic lung dise...

With a wealth of scientifically proven health benefits, meditation was enjoyed by about 18 million people in the U.S. alone, as of 2012. Yet, there remains a stunning lack of convenient tools for promoting long-term and effective meditation practice. In this paper, we present MindfulWatch, a practical smartwatch-based sensing system that monitors r...

Nurses, nursing educators and students support the inclusion of integrative health care (IHC) into nursing core curriculum as a way to create nurses who deliver nursing care to the full extent of their scope of practice and advance evidenced based IHC. Because of the holistic nature of IHC modalities, research to investigate appropriate teaching st...

The Feasibility of Heart Rate Variability to Test Dose Effectiveness of Home-based Meditative Practices in Lung Cancer Patients

Title: Expert meditators in the COPD population: Building Sangha in the American health care setting. Authors: Roxane Raffin Chan, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, Jamie Beaulieu, BSN student, Carolyn Ziminski Pickering, PhD, RN Aims: Participation in meditation interventions have been shown to reduce anxiety, depression and chronic disease symptoms in persons wit...

Using reflective action participatory research to identify teaching strategies for integrative health care modalities in nursing core curriculum Background: The increasing acceptance of and value for fully incorporating integrative health care (IHC) into traditional health care settings has identified a need to include teaching IHC and IHC modalit...

Patients with terminal illness in their final stages of life may contemplate their options for death and dying. There has been growing public interest and media attention regarding patient decision making and autonomy at the end of life. The article provides updated legal and ethical discussion about issues and trends associated with the assisted d...

Nurse-researchers studying interventions for patients at the end-of-life may become close with participants due to the nature of interactions within the research protocol. In such studies, participants may request further interactions that would constitute clinical care beyond the scope of the protocol. Nurse-researchers may feel a conflict of valu...

Context: Persons with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exhibit high levels of comorbid anxiety that severely worsens their sensation of dyspnea and is associated with high levels of avoidance of essential activities resulting in an increase morbidity and mortality. Increasing meditation and mind/body practices have been shown to decrea...

The rapidly growing body of research regarding the use of meditation interventions in chronic disease presents an opportunity to compare outcomes based on intervention content. For this review, meditation interventions were described as those interventions delivered to persons with chronic disease where sitting meditation was the main or only conte...

Living well with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requires people to manage disease-related symptoms in order to participate in activities of daily living. Mindfulness practice is an intervention that has been shown to reduce symptoms of chronic disease and improve accurate symptom assessment, both of which could result in improved dise...

The increased acceptance of integrative care allows nurses to investigate their role as active providers of spiritual care at the bedside. Lack of clear role expectations and interventions support the need for a simple, flexible spiritual bedside intervention. The use of a meditation mantra is discussed.

People with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have a high incidence of anxiety. This pilot study established feasibility and examined potential effects of mindfulness based stress reduction, modified for people with COPD. Primary outcomes included; sense of coherence, mindfulness, emotional function, mastery of disease, symptoms of dyspn...

A needs assessment survey reveals many staff nurses incorrectly estimate the HIV contagion risk, inadequately follow universal precaution mandates, and are often unaware of available information and counseling resources. Nurses want current, reliable HIV-AIDS related information and counseling from credible, accessible, and readily available source...