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Trial reportJournal of occupational health psychology2019

Mindfulness on-the-go: Effects of a mindfulness meditation app on work stress and well-being.

Sophie Bostock, Alexandra D Crosswell, Aric A Prather, Andrew Steptoe

Abstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of occupational health psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 147 papers, 18 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

147 citing papers in PubMed, 18 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. [On the Effectiveness of Digital Workplace Health Promotion in Times of Home Office: A Systematic Review].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2024
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  8. From Monitoring to Assisting: A Systematic Review towards Healthier Workplaces.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sophie BostockDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London.
Alexandra D CrosswellDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco.ORCID 0000-0002-1632-2931
Aric A PratherDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco.
Andrew SteptoeDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London.

Funding

Stress, diet quality, and biological aging across the lifespanR24AG048024 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI EPEL, ELISSA S., MENDES, WENDY BERRY · 2014 to 2025
$6.2M
Sleep as a novel pathway linking chronic psychological stress and inflammationK08HL112961 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI PRATHER, ARIC ANDREW · 2012 to 2016
$723k
British Heart FoundationNational Heart Lung and Blood InstituteNational Institute on AgingNHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL112961NIA NIH HHS R24 AG048024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated whether a mindfulness meditation program delivered via a smartphone application could improve psychological well-being, reduce job strain, and reduce ambulatory blood pressure during the workday. Participants were 238 healthy employees from two large United Kingdom companies that were randomized to a mindfulness meditation practice app or a wait-list control condition. The app offered 45 prerecorded 10- to 20-min guided audio meditations. Participants were asked to complete one meditation per day. Psychosocial measures and blood pressure throughout one working day were measured at baseline and eight weeks later; a follow-up survey was also emailed to participants 16 weeks after the intervention start. Usage data showed that during the 8-week intervention period, participants randomized to the intervention completed an average of 17 meditation sessions (range 0-45 sessions). The intervention group reported significant improvement in well-being, distress, job strain, and perceptions of workplace social support compared to the control group. In addition, the intervention group had a marginally significant decrease in self-measured workday systolic blood pressure from pre- to post-intervention. Sustained positive effects in the intervention group were found for well-being and job strain at the 16-week follow-up assessment. This trial suggests that short guided mindfulness meditations delivered via smartphone and practiced multiple times per week can improve outcomes related to work stress and well-being, with potentially lasting effects. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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MindfulnessAdultAnalysis of VarianceBlood PressureBlood Pressure Monitoring, AmbulatoryFemaleHumansMaleMeditationMiddle AgedMobile ApplicationsOccupational StressPersonal SatisfactionPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesSmartphoneSocial Support

Identifiers

PMID29723001
PMCPMC6215525

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