Effectiveness of providing university students with a mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress: 1-year follow-up of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

BackgroundThere is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled trial hypothesising that providing mindfulness courses to university students would promote their re...

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Published in:	Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979) 2021-02, Vol.75 (2), p.151-160
Main Authors:	Galante, Julieta, Stochl, Jan, Dufour, Géraldine, Vainre, Maris, Wagner, Adam Peter, Jones, Peter Brian
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Advisors Clinical outcomes Health services Hypotheses Mental disorders Mental health care Mindfulness Original Research Self-injury Sex crimes Stress University students
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Summary:	BackgroundThere is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled trial hypothesising that providing mindfulness courses to university students would promote their resilience to stress up to a year later. Here we present 1-year follow-up outcomes.MethodsUniversity of Cambridge students without severe mental illness or crisis were randomised (1:1, remote software-generated random numbers), to join an 8-week mindfulness course adapted for university students (Mindfulness Skills for Students (MSS)), or to mental health support as usual (SAU).ResultsWe randomised 616 students; 53% completed the 1-year follow-up questionnaire. Self-reported psychological distress and mental well-being improved in the MSS arm for up to 1 year compared to SAU (p
ISSN:	0143-005X 1470-2738