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A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness: effects on university students’ mental health
BACKGROUND: The development of mental health disorders is common in the university population, and mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) seem to be effective in addressing them in different contexts. Thus, this study investigated the impact of an 8-week MBI adapted to university students from the M...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10571349/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37833796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-023-00604-8 |
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author | Gallo, Giovana Gonçalves Curado, Daniela Fernandez Machado, Mayra Pires Alves Espíndola, Marília Ignácio Scattone, Vitor Villar Noto, Ana Regina |
author_facet | Gallo, Giovana Gonçalves Curado, Daniela Fernandez Machado, Mayra Pires Alves Espíndola, Marília Ignácio Scattone, Vitor Villar Noto, Ana Regina |
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description | BACKGROUND: The development of mental health disorders is common in the university population, and mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) seem to be effective in addressing them in different contexts. Thus, this study investigated the impact of an 8-week MBI adapted to university students from the Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBSR) on different symptoms related to mental health problems, specifically symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress and insomnia. METHODS: University students (n = 136) were randomized into MBI group (n = 71) or wait-list group (n = 65). All participants completed self-administered questionnaires before and after the intervention, and the experimental group answered questionnaires weekly during intervention. Generalized mixed models were used to assess the effects of the intervention. RESULTS: There were improvements in the symptoms of stress (B = 5.76, p < 0.001), depression (B = 1.55, p < 0.01) and insomnia (B = 1.35, p = 0.020) from the beginning of the intervention to the final assessment when it was compared to the control group. No effect was found in respect of trait anxiety. The MBI was found to be effective in reducing important symptoms related to university students’ mental health, possibly grounding further research on the intervention’s potential of preventing the development of mental disorders. TRIAL REGISTRATION: The research was registered in the Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (ReBEC) - number RBR-63qsqx, approved at 09/16/2019. |
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spelling | pubmed-105713492023-10-14 A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness: effects on university students’ mental health Gallo, Giovana Gonçalves Curado, Daniela Fernandez Machado, Mayra Pires Alves Espíndola, Marília Ignácio Scattone, Vitor Villar Noto, Ana Regina Int J Ment Health Syst Research BACKGROUND: The development of mental health disorders is common in the university population, and mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) seem to be effective in addressing them in different contexts. Thus, this study investigated the impact of an 8-week MBI adapted to university students from the Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBSR) on different symptoms related to mental health problems, specifically symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress and insomnia. METHODS: University students (n = 136) were randomized into MBI group (n = 71) or wait-list group (n = 65). All participants completed self-administered questionnaires before and after the intervention, and the experimental group answered questionnaires weekly during intervention. Generalized mixed models were used to assess the effects of the intervention. RESULTS: There were improvements in the symptoms of stress (B = 5.76, p < 0.001), depression (B = 1.55, p < 0.01) and insomnia (B = 1.35, p = 0.020) from the beginning of the intervention to the final assessment when it was compared to the control group. No effect was found in respect of trait anxiety. The MBI was found to be effective in reducing important symptoms related to university students’ mental health, possibly grounding further research on the intervention’s potential of preventing the development of mental disorders. TRIAL REGISTRATION: The research was registered in the Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (ReBEC) - number RBR-63qsqx, approved at 09/16/2019. BioMed Central 2023-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10571349/ /pubmed/37833796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-023-00604-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Gallo, Giovana Gonçalves Curado, Daniela Fernandez Machado, Mayra Pires Alves Espíndola, Marília Ignácio Scattone, Vitor Villar Noto, Ana Regina A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness: effects on university students’ mental health |
title | A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness: effects on university students’ mental health |
title_full | A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness: effects on university students’ mental health |
title_fullStr | A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness: effects on university students’ mental health |
title_full_unstemmed | A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness: effects on university students’ mental health |
title_short | A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness: effects on university students’ mental health |
title_sort | randomized controlled trial of mindfulness: effects on university students’ mental health |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10571349/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37833796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-023-00604-8 |
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