One-year follow-up of a remote delivered Koru Mindfulness RCT intervention for college students during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Published in: Journal of American college health 2024-11, p.1
• Main Authors: Mirabito, Grazia, Koganti, Lekha S, Verhaeghen, Paul
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1940-3208; 1940-3208
• DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2024.2409694

: To examine whether a remote, online, group-based mindfulness intervention maintains long-term effects at one-year follow-up. : 61 college students (38 in the intervention group, 23 controls) completed the follow-up survey. : Follow-up to an RCT using a 4-week Koru Mindfulness program, investigating pre-to-follow-up changes in the intervention group compared to control participants. : The intervention produced significant follow-up effects, as assessed by a time by group interaction in a MANOVA (Cohen's  = 0.59 , with univariate effects for four of our 21 variables, compared to reliable posttest effects for 16 of these variables. Post-intervention practice maintenance was low (on average participants practiced once a month); continued practice correlated with treatment gain in two of our mindfulness variables, stress, worry, and anxiety. : We found some evidence for maintained benefits one year after a remote, online, group-based mindfulness program, as well as modest evidence for the benefit of continued practice.