Physical and Psychological Health Predict Adherence to an Online Mindfulness Program for College Students

Gutiérrez, Daniel; Forbes, Leila; Johnson, Susan K.

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“…Online delivery of mindfulness has increased accessibility, affordability, and feasibility of engaging a greater mindfulness practice population. However, several studies have shown that despite these benefits, online mindfulness interventions have significantly higher attrition rates than in-person mindfulness programs, with rates of 70% and 29%, respectively (Gutierrez et al, 2020 ). Similarly, a review of mindfulness-based iPhone apps found that very few apps have high engagement levels on the Mobile App Rating Scale (Mani et al, 2015 ).…”

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The Development, Implementation, and Preliminary Outcomes of a 5-Minute Mindfulness Program to Improve Well-Being and Increase Connection Across a University Campus

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Beary

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J. technol. behav. sci.

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The Development, Implementation, and Preliminary Outcomes of a 5-Minute Mindfulness Program to Improve Well-Being and Increase Connection Across a University Campus

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“…As a result, college counselors often must place students on waitlists or refer them to resources off campus (Iarussi and Shaw, 2016 ). As the burden on in-person counseling services increases, research has been growing in online therapeutic interventions (Andersson and Titov, 2014 ; Gutierrez et al, 2020 ). Further, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, university counselors have been increasingly treating students through online means (e.g., telehealth, online mental health resources) more than ever before.…”

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“…Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the college counseling field issued a widespread call for evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to supplement and reduce the demand for in-person counseling (Xiao et al, 2017 ; Gutierrez et al, 2020 ). One of the most widely researched and established CAM interventions is meditation (Walsh and Shapiro, 2006 ; Sedlmeier et al, 2012 ).…”

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“…Meditation has become a prevalent mental health resource for university students and has already shown effective outcomes through online delivery (e.g., Headspace, Koru Mindfulness; Greeson et al, 2014 ; Forbes et al, 2018 ). Because the research on online meditative interventions is still in its early stages, the literature on the efficacy and adherence of online meditative interventions typically centers on non-sectarian, mindfulness-based meditations (Plante et al, 2010 ; Forbes et al, 2018 ; Gutierrez et al, 2020 ). However, research has shown that spirituality potentiates the effectiveness of meditation interventions, thereby increasing the positive effects of meditation (Benson and Stark, 1996 ; Wachholtz and Pargament, 2005 ; Wang et al, 2021 ).…”

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The Effectiveness of a Centering Meditation Intervention on College Stress and Mindfulness: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Dorais

Gutiérrez

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Background: Mental health concerns are climbing steadily on college campuses, and universities do not have the staffing and financial resources to address the overwhelming needs of students seeking counseling services. College counselors generally must place students on waitlists or refer them to external resources. Further, during the COVID-19 pandemic, university counselors have been working tirelessly to treat students through online formats. Alternative, online, evidence-based interventions offer college counselors a significant advantage in effectively treating their students. We seek to expand the empirical evidence for mindfulness interventions through online formats for the college population. We registered the study (ISRCTN13587045) at www.isrctn.com.Objective: We examined the effectiveness of a unique online centering meditation and its impact on stress and trait mindfulness in the college population.Methods: Through a randomized controlled trial, the treatment group participated in a 4-week intervention of centering for 10 min each morning and night. We measured stress and mindfulness in both groups through the Perceived Stress Scale and Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised at baseline, 2 weeks, and 4 weeks.Results: The centering meditation treatment had a statistically significant positive impact on stress and mindfulness compared to a waitlist control group. The meditation group had an average of 64% adherence rate.Conclusion: The study findings indicate that individuals who participate in a 4-week online centering intervention showed improved levels of stress and trait mindfulness over time.Clinical Trial Registration: WHO International Clinical Registry Platform, identifier: ISRCTN13587045.

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“…However, the formulation of the current college students' psychological health assessment and analysis model lacks scientific and unified standards, and the selection of assessment indicators is too single. However, due to the variability, urgency, uncertainty, complexity, multiplicity, and contingency of college students' psychological health problems, psychological health assessment has become a more difficult subject [ 3 ]. In this regard, it is necessary to carefully study the psychological characteristics of contemporary college students on the basis of analyzing the factors that affect the psychological health of college students, and establish a professional analysis model for the assessment of college students' psychological health [ 4 ].…”

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An Assessment and Analysis Model of Psychological Health of College Students Based on Convolutional Neural Networks

Liang

2022

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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Psychological health assessment and psychological problem identification essentially belong to problems of pattern recognition or nonlinear classification; its system contains complex nonlinear interactions among various factors, having basic characteristics of multivariable, multilevel, and strong coupling. An important problem in the field of artificial intelligence solved by convolutional neural networks (CNN) is to simplify complex problems, minimize the number of parameters, and thus greatly improve the algorithm’s performance. Therefore, CNN has outstanding advantages in establishing the assessment and analysis model of college students’ psychological health. This study determined the psychological health standards of college students, selected measurement tools for college students’ psychological state, elaborated the principles of psychological assessment based on text information, performed the sample set data establishment and data processing of the assessment and analysis model of psychological health, conducted network establishment, training, and simulation, carried out a case experiment and its result analysis, explored the cause analysis of college students’ psychological health problems, and finally discussed the prevention and intervention of college students’ psychological problems. The study results show that the input and output of the CNN-based assessment and analysis model of college students’ psychological health are their evaluation data and assessment results, respectively, and the optimal hyperparameters of the model are determined through fold cross-validation analysis to improve the model’s over-fitting problem. After the training is completed, the model can predict the changes in college students’ psychological state in the future through the psychological test data. The CNN uses supervised machine learning method to construct an assessment and analysis model of college students’ psychological health, and establishes the mapping relationship between college students’ personal background and their psychological health. The network error continuously adjusts network connection weight according to gradient descent algorithm to minimize its error, so that the convolutional layer and the pooling layer can learn the optimized feature expression of the input data.

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Physical and Psychological Health Predict Adherence to an Online Mindfulness Program for College Students

Cited by 8 publications

References 62 publications

The Development, Implementation, and Preliminary Outcomes of a 5-Minute Mindfulness Program to Improve Well-Being and Increase Connection Across a University Campus

The Development, Implementation, and Preliminary Outcomes of a 5-Minute Mindfulness Program to Improve Well-Being and Increase Connection Across a University Campus

The Effectiveness of a Centering Meditation Intervention on College Stress and Mindfulness: A Randomized Controlled Trial

An Assessment and Analysis Model of Psychological Health of College Students Based on Convolutional Neural Networks

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