Nervous patients? Study says try meditation in your waiting room
Feeling more positive enables them to better understand and retain medical messages, say researchers
Doctors may do better to provide their nervous patients with a mindfulness app than a TV in the waiting room, with a US study suggesting meditation helps them pay attention to health information.
Some relaxing and mood-altering listening might help them feel calmer, enabling them to better attend to and understand health messages, researchers say.
