App-based mindfulness meditation for psychological distress and adjustment to college in incoming university students: a pragmatic, randomised, waitlist-controlled trial

Objective and Design: In a pragmatic, randomised, waitlist-controlled trial we tracked 250 first-year university students who were randomly assigned to 3 months of a mindfulness meditation app (Headspace) to use at their discretion in either semester 1 (intervention, n = 124) or semester 2 (waitlist...

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Published in:Psychology & health 2020-09, Vol.35 (9), p.1049-1074
Main Authors: Flett, Jayde A. M., Conner, Tamlin S., Riordan, Benjamin C., Patterson, Tess, Hayne, Harlene
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
applications
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12617000300370
college adjustment
college students
Emotional Adjustment
Female
Humans
Male
Meditation
Meditation - psychology
Mindfulness
Mobile Applications
mobile phones
New Zealand
Psychological Distress
Psychotherapy - methods
Resilience (Psychology)
Students - psychology
Students - statistics & numerical data
Treatment Outcome
Universities
University students
Waiting Lists
Young Adult
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