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Trial reportPsychiatry research2021

Effects of an eight-week, online mindfulness program on anxiety and depression in university students during COVID-19: A randomized controlled trial.

Otto Simonsson, Olivier Bazin, Stephen D Fisher, Simon B Goldberg

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Trial report in Psychiatry research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 10 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Otto SimonssonCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Center for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, UK. Electronic address: simonsson@wisc.edu.
Olivier BazinIndependent Mindfulness Practitioner.
Stephen D FisherDepartment of Sociology, University of Oxford, UK.
Simon B GoldbergCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
University of Oxford · GBUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Mindfulness training delivered via mobile health to reduce depression and anxietyK23AT010879 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI GOLDBERG, SIMON B · 2020 to 2024
$786k
NCCIH NIH HHS K23 AT010879
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had adverse mental health effects for many groups in British society, especially young adults and university students. The present study reports secondary outcomes (i.e., symptoms of anxiety and depression) from a randomized waitlist controlled trial, with a one-month post-intervention follow-up, on the effects of a guided, eight-week mindfulness program delivered online during the COVID-19 pandemic among students at the University of Oxford. Longitudinal multilevel models showed greater reductions in anxiety but not depression symptoms for participants in the mindfulness condition relative to participants in the waitlist control condition (time X group B=-0.36, p=.025).

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COVID-19MindfulnessAnxietyDepressionHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2StudentsUniversitiesYoung AdultAnxietyDepressionMental healthMindfulnessStudents

Identifiers

PMID34601450
PMCPMC8459547
OpenAlexW3200214919

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