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Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions: Nature-Based Mindfulness Training for College Students with Anxiety
The mental health crisis across college campuses is accelerating, with anxiety listed as the top mental health issue for undergraduate college students. Although evidence suggests the COVID-19 pandemic escalated the mental health crisis on college campuses, pre-COVID-19 anxiety among college student...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860632/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36674206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021451 |
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author | Vitagliano, Luke A. Wester, Kelly L. Jones, Connie T. Wyrick, David L. Vermeesch, Amber L. |
author_facet | Vitagliano, Luke A. Wester, Kelly L. Jones, Connie T. Wyrick, David L. Vermeesch, Amber L. |
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description | The mental health crisis across college campuses is accelerating, with anxiety listed as the top mental health issue for undergraduate college students. Although evidence suggests the COVID-19 pandemic escalated the mental health crisis on college campuses, pre-COVID-19 anxiety among college students was on the rise. Research supports Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) to reduce anxiety among college students. Additionally, exposure to natural environments, which are accessible to students on college campuses, is effective in reducing anxiety. While brief nature-based mindfulness interventions appear effective in reducing anxiety among college students, these interventions are often offered in isolation without social interaction among group members and lack intentional integration of mindfulness and nature-related theories. The purpose of this work is to describe a framework for integrating the use of Mindfulness and Attention Restoration Theory (ART) in an innovative psychoeducational group intervention, Nature-Based Mindfulness Training © (NBMT), for college students with anxiety. In conclusion, we argue for the need to intentionally integrate mindfulness and nature into nature-based mindfulness interventions as an effective and sustainable means to reduce anxiety. Limitations and areas for future research are described. |
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spelling | pubmed-98606322023-01-22 Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions: Nature-Based Mindfulness Training for College Students with Anxiety Vitagliano, Luke A. Wester, Kelly L. Jones, Connie T. Wyrick, David L. Vermeesch, Amber L. Int J Environ Res Public Health Perspective The mental health crisis across college campuses is accelerating, with anxiety listed as the top mental health issue for undergraduate college students. Although evidence suggests the COVID-19 pandemic escalated the mental health crisis on college campuses, pre-COVID-19 anxiety among college students was on the rise. Research supports Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) to reduce anxiety among college students. Additionally, exposure to natural environments, which are accessible to students on college campuses, is effective in reducing anxiety. While brief nature-based mindfulness interventions appear effective in reducing anxiety among college students, these interventions are often offered in isolation without social interaction among group members and lack intentional integration of mindfulness and nature-related theories. The purpose of this work is to describe a framework for integrating the use of Mindfulness and Attention Restoration Theory (ART) in an innovative psychoeducational group intervention, Nature-Based Mindfulness Training © (NBMT), for college students with anxiety. In conclusion, we argue for the need to intentionally integrate mindfulness and nature into nature-based mindfulness interventions as an effective and sustainable means to reduce anxiety. Limitations and areas for future research are described. MDPI 2023-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9860632/ /pubmed/36674206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021451 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Vitagliano, Luke A. Wester, Kelly L. Jones, Connie T. Wyrick, David L. Vermeesch, Amber L. Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions: Nature-Based Mindfulness Training for College Students with Anxiety |
title | Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions: Nature-Based Mindfulness Training for College Students with Anxiety |
title_full | Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions: Nature-Based Mindfulness Training for College Students with Anxiety |
title_fullStr | Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions: Nature-Based Mindfulness Training for College Students with Anxiety |
title_full_unstemmed | Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions: Nature-Based Mindfulness Training for College Students with Anxiety |
title_short | Group Nature-Based Mindfulness Interventions: Nature-Based Mindfulness Training for College Students with Anxiety |
title_sort | group nature-based mindfulness interventions: nature-based mindfulness training for college students with anxiety |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860632/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36674206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021451 |
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