Effects of an eight-week, online mindfulness program on anxiety and depression in university students during COVID-19: A randomized controlled trial

The COVID-19 pandemic has had adverse mental health effects for many groups in British society, especially young adults and university students. The present study reports secondary outcomes (i.e., symptoms of anxiety and depression) from a randomized waitlist controlled trial, with a one-month post-...

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Published inPsychiatry research Vol. 305; p. 114222
Main Authors Simonsson, Otto, Bazin, Olivier, Fisher, Stephen D., Goldberg, Simon B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ireland Elsevier B.V 01.11.2021
Subjects
Anxiety
Anxiety - therapy
COVID-19
Depression
Depression - therapy
Humans
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Mental health
Mindfulness
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Students
Universities
Young Adult
Depression
Anxiety
Students
Mindfulness
Mental health
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic has had adverse mental health effects for many groups in British society, especially young adults and university students. The present study reports secondary outcomes (i.e., symptoms of anxiety and depression) from a randomized waitlist controlled trial, with a one-month post-intervention follow-up, on the effects of a guided, eight-week mindfulness program delivered online during the COVID-19 pandemic among students at the University of Oxford. Longitudinal multilevel models showed greater reductions in anxiety but not depression symptoms for participants in the mindfulness condition relative to participants in the waitlist control condition (time X group B=-0.36, p=.025).
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ISSN:0165-1781
1872-7123
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DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114222