This abstract provides the preliminary evidence base for using mindfulness as a resource for supporting student resilience during examination periods. The students introduced to mindfulness were more distressed than the average UK student, but less so than those attending counselling sessions at the university counselling service.
Resource
Here’s the abstract: Provision of a mindfulness intervention to support university students’ wellbeing and resilience to stress: preliminary results of a randomised controlled trial (PDF 55 KB – opens in a new window)
Authors
Julieta Galante, Geraldine Dufour, Maris Vainre, Adam P Wagner, Jan Stochl, Timothy J Croudace, Alice Benton, Emma Howarth and Peter B Jones
Publication
November 2016