Being Mindful at University: A Pilot Evaluation of the Feasibility of an Online Mindfulness-Based Mental Health Support Program for Students

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Alternative codes found

RIV/65269705:_____/21:00074825 RIV/00216224:14110/21:00120942

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581086/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581086/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581086" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581086</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Being Mindful at University: A Pilot Evaluation of the Feasibility of an Online Mindfulness-Based Mental Health Support Program for Students

Original language description

University study can be a life period of heightened psychological distress for many students. The development of new preventive and intervention programs to support well-being in university students is a fundamental challenge for mental health professionals. We designed an 8-week online mindfulness-based program (eMBP) combining a face-to-face approach, text, audio, video components, and support psychotherapy principles with a unique intensive reminder system using the Facebook Messenger and Slack applications in two separate runs (N = 692). We assessed the program&apos;s effect on mindful experiencing, perceived stress, emotion regulation strategies, self-compassion, negative affect, and quality of life. The results of the presented pilot study confirmed that eMBP is a feasible and effective tool in university students&apos; mental health support. The students who completed the eMBP reported a reduction of perceived stress with a large effect size ((p)eta(2) = 0.42) as well as a decrease of negative affect experience frequency and intensity ((p)eta(2) = 0.31), an increase of being mindful in their life (Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire subscales:(p)eta(2) = 0.21, 0.27, 0.25, 0.28, 0.28), and a higher rate of self-compassion ((p)eta(2) = 0.28) with a medium effect size. A small effect size was found in the frequency of using a cognitive reappraisal strategy ((p)eta(2) = 0.073). One new result is the observation of an eMBP effect ((p)eta(2) = 0.27) on the decrease in attributed importance to the quality-of-life components replicated in two consecutive runs of the program. The study affirms that mindfulness-based interventions can be effectively delivered in an eHealth form to university students.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Psychology

ISSN

1664-1078

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JAN 11

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

581086

UT code for WoS article

000611126500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85099875062