Building sangha in the american healthcare setting for persons with chronic disease

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 disease who have maintained a self-led meditation group for more than four years created an opportunity to analyze experiences, meanings and relationship dynamics of this community based meditation group.
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