Trial reportBMC psychology2022
Mindfulness and music interventions in the workplace: assessment of sustained attention and working memory using a crowdsourcing approach.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- [On the Effectiveness of Digital Workplace Health Promotion in Times of Home Office: A Systematic Review].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2024Pooled it
- Musicotherapy mobile applications: what level of evidence and potential role in psychiatric care? A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- App-Based Mindfulness for Attenuation of Subjective and Physiological Stress Reactivity in a Population With Elevated Stress: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Trial
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- Music-based interventions at workplaces: a scoping review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Article
- Mindfulness training enhances face working memory: evidence from the drift-diffusion model.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Effects of mindfulness, music therapy, and social support on adolescents test anxiety.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Does mindfulness matter on employee outcomes? Exploring its effects via perceived stress.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of mindfulness apps on psychological processes of change: a systematic review.Npj mental health research · 2024Review
- Exploring the influence of music on cognitive performance in female assembly line workers at a medical device manufacturing unit.PloS one · 2024Article
- Impacting employees' and managers' mental health skills using a workplace-adapted mindfulness-based intervention.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundOccupational stress has huge financial as well as human costs. Application of crowdsourcing might be a way to strengthen the investigation of occupational mental health. Therefore, the aim of the study was to assess Danish employees' stress and cognition by relying on a crowdsourcing approach, as well as investigating the effect of a 30-day mindfulness and music intervention.
methodsWe translated well-validated neuropsychological laboratory- and task-based paradigms into an app-based platform using cognitive games measuring sustained attention and working memory and measuring stress via. Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale. A total of 623 healthy volunteers from Danish companies participated in the study and were randomized into three groups, which consisted of a 30-day intervention of either mindfulness or music, or a non-intervention control group.
resultsParticipants in the mindfulness group showed a significant improvement in the coefficient of sustained attention, working memory capacity and perceived stress (p < .001). The music group showed a 38% decrease of self-perceived stress. The control group showed no difference from pre to post in the survey or cognitive outcome measures. Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between usage of the mindfulness and music app and elevated score on both the cognitive games and the perceived stress scale.
conclusionThe study supports the nascent field of crowdsourcing by being able to replicate data collected in previous well-controlled laboratory studies from a range of experimental cognitive tasks, making it an effective alternative. It also supports mindfulness as an effective intervention in improving mental health in the workplace.
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