Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study

0586894 - PSÚ 2025 US eng J - Journal Article
Sparacio, A. - IJzerman, H. - Ropovik, Ivan - Giorgini, I. - Spiessens, Ch. - Uchino, B. N. - Landvatter, J. - Tacana, T. - Diller, S. J. - Derrick, J. L. - Segundo, J. - Pierce, J. D. - Ross, R.M. - LaBoucane, A. - Ma-Kellams, Ch. - Ford, M.B. - Schmidt, K. - Wong, C.C. - Higgins, W.C. - Stone, B.M. - Stanley, S.K. - Ribeiro, G. - Fuglestad, P.T. - Kuebler, A. - Ziebell, P. - Jewell, C.L. … Total 62 authors
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study.
Nature Human Behaviour. červen (2024). ISSN 2397-3374. E-ISSN 2397-3374
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LX22NPO5101
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impact factor: 29.9, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01907-7.pdf

Mindfulness witnessed a substantial popularity surge in the past decade, especially as digitally self-administered interventions became available at relatively low costs. Yet, it is uncertain whether they effectively help reduce stress. In a preregistered (OSF https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/UF4JZ, retrospective registration at ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06308744) multi-site study (nsites = 37, nparticipants = 2,239, 70.4% women, Mage = 22.4, s.d.age = 10.1, all fluent English speakers), we experimentally tested whether four single, standalone mindfulness exercises effectively reduced stress, using Bayesian mixed-effects models. All exercises proved to be more efficacious than the active control. We observed a mean difference of 0.27 (d = −0.56, 95% confidence interval, −0.43 to −0.69) between the control condition (M = 1.95, s.d. = 0.50) and the condition with the largest stress reduction (body scan: M = 1.68, s.d. = 0.46). Our findings suggest that mindfulness may be beneficial for reducing self-reported short-term stress for English speakers from higher-income countries.
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