Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2022
Which adolescents are well-suited to app-based mindfulness training? A randomized clinical trial and data-driven approach for personalized recommendations.
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- The Use of Waivers of Guardian Permission in the United States for Pediatric Digital Health Intervention Research Since 2020: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Adverse Events of Mood Monitoring and Ambulatory Assessment in Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Readdressing the Ongoing Challenge of Missing Data in Youth Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies: Meta-Analysis Update.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
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- Personalized prediction of response to three meditation practices: A randomized controlled trial.Behaviour research and therapy · 2026Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of an online mindfulness program for adolescents at risk for internalizing problems.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Personalized Prediction of Response to Smartphone-Delivered Meditation Training: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindfulness Mobile Application for Ruminative Adolescents.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Trial
- Uncovering the heterogeneity in young adult anxiety: subtypes predict outcomes of a CBT mobile app.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Characterizing and predicting refractory rumination in obsessive compulsive disorder.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Ecological Momentary Assessment as a Measure of Intervention Change: Evaluation in 4 Digital Mental Health Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Neural propensity for trait rumination in adolescents: A cross-sectional study with Voxel-Based Morphometry.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Personalised & optimised therapy (POT) algorithm using five cognitive and behavioural skills for subthreshold depression.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Brain mechanisms of rumination and negative self-referential processing in adolescent depression.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Which client with generalized anxiety disorder benefits from a mindfulness ecological momentary intervention versus a self-monitoring app? Developing a multivariable machine learning predictive model.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Understanding the Implementation of Informal Meditation Practice in a Smartphone-Based Intervention: A Qualitative Analysis.Mindfulness · 2024Article
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- Revealing subgroup-specific mechanisms of change via moderated mediation: A meditation intervention example.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2024Article
- Selecting and describing control conditions in mobile health randomized controlled trials: a proposed typology.NPJ digital medicine · 2023Review
- Spontaneous Thought Characteristics are Differentially Related to Heightened Negative Affect vs. Blunted Positive Affect in Adolescents: An Experience Sampling Study.JCPP advances · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveRumination heightens risk for depression and anxiety, which increase substantially during adolescence. Smartphone apps offer a convenient and cost-effective means for adolescents to access mindfulness training, which may reduce rumination. Despite their increasing popularity, it is unclear which adolescents benefit from mindfulness apps.
methodAdolescents (n = 152) with elevated trait rumination were randomly assigned to 3 weeks of app-based mindfulness training or a mood-monitoring control. Multilevel models tested group differences in state rumination change, assessed via ecological momentary assessment. Baseline adolescent characteristics were submitted to elastic net regularization models to develop a "Personalized Advantage Index" indicating an individual's expected outcome from the mindfulness app relative to the mood-monitoring control. Finally, we translated a predictive model (developed in an external sample) for personalized recommendations of expected benefit from the mindfulness app.
resultsAdolescents in the mindfulness app condition reported significantly greater reductions in rumination than adolescents in the control condition. Individuals predicted to have better outcomes from the mindfulness app relative to mood monitoring had significantly greater reductions in rumination if randomly assigned to the mindfulness condition. In contrast, between-condition differences in outcome were not significant for adolescents predicted to have better outcomes in the mood-monitoring condition.
conclusionsFindings support the efficacy of a mindfulness app to reduce state rumination in adolescents, particularly among adolescents high in trait rumination. A predictive model is put forth, which could be used to objectively communicate expected mindfulness app outcomes to adolescents prior to engagement in app-based mindfulness training. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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