Authors: Edilaine Cristina da Silva Gherardi-Donato PhD, Vinícius Santos de Moraes Msc, Larissa Horta Esper PhD, Ana Carolina Guidorizzi Zanetti PhD, Maria Neyrian de Fátima Fernandes PhD.
Background: Scientific evidence points to the benefits of mindfulness practice to provide holistic health care in several contexts. Mindfulness represents a refreshing field of caring practices and research in nursing. Identifying studies that evaluate psychometric properties of mindfulness measuring instruments are essential for finding the best evidence to support nursing research in this field. This study is aimed to evaluate the evidence produced about the properties of the mindfulness measurement instruments to identify it and describe the most frequently used study population.
Method: Research was conducted in February 2018, using the databases PsycINFO, Embase and PubMed, and the terms: "Mindfulness," "Questionnaire," "Instruments," and "Scale".
Results: 16 studies that answered the question of this revision were selected. The included studies identified the scales/inventories/questionnaires demonstrated in the literature. The most used instrument was the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ). Other instruments identified were: State Mindfulness Scale, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), Athlete Mindfulness Questionnaire (AMQ), Comprehensive Inventory of Mindfulness
Experiences (CHIME), Mindfulness in Teaching Scale (MTS), and Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS).
Conclusion: This study offered support to researchers and health professionals to choose instruments of mindfulness that best suits their research or practice. The produced knowledge can allow the expansion of scientific evidence on the subject, contributing to advance the holistic care by nurses and other professionals.
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