Trial reportScientific reports2023
Improving stress management, anxiety, and mental well-being in medical students through an online Mindfulness-Based Intervention: a randomized study.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effectiveness of interventions designed to enhance and maintain medical student wellbeing: a systematic review.BMC medical education · 2026Pooled it
- Mindfulness-Based Programmes for Work Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of resilience training on resilience and stress in medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medical education · 2025Pooled it
- Brief Web-Based Psychological Intervention for Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese Adolescents: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Trial
- Hypnosis reshapes multilevel stress response and enhances executive performance in stressed medical students.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Effect of Virtual Reality-Based Mindfulness Program vs Audio-Guided Mindfulness on Depression, Sleep, and Quality of Life in Dementia Family Caregivers: An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of medical sciences · 2026Trial
- A Brief Online Program Integrating Mindfulness and Stretching Exercises: Effects on Well-Being in Health Sciences Students.Journal of clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Daily breath-based mindfulness exercises in a randomized controlled trial improve primary school children's performance in arithmetic.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Proactive Resilience Programmes for Improving Resilience and Psychological Adaptation in Employees in High-Risk Occupations: A Systematic Review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Review
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Psychological Stress in Medical Students: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Physical fitness and bone health among medical students in Southwest China: implications for health promotion in ethnically diverse populations.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Improvement of medical students' stress, dispositional mindfulness, well-being and flourishing during the first academic year of a medical curriculum integrating a well-being longitudinal strand.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Association between chronic health problems and quality of life in medical students. Results of the POLLEK cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Yoga-based meditation improves self-regulation and well-being in medical students: a pilot study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Lifestyle habits and health behaviors in first-year medical students: a longitudinal analysis across the academic year.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- [Mental health strategies for self-care and coping in medical residents].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2026Article
- Mental Health Trajectories in Medical Students: The Impact of Academic Repetition on Depressive Symptoms and Self-Rated Health.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Lifestyle, Volition, and Well-Being Among Medical and Non-Medical University Students: A Preliminary Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of stress management program on perceived stress and anxiety among medical students at Helwan University: An intervention study.Journal of public health research · 2025Article
- Five Practical Video Modules to Reduce Physician Burnout Through Mindfulness and Systematic Review of Evidence.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2025Article
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Abstract
Pressures and responsibilities of medical school put a strain on medical student's personal wellbeing, leading among all to high rates of anxiety, emotional discomfort and stress. In this work we evaluated the effectiveness of a comprehensive Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) in reducing this load. The intervention comprised 10 twice-a-week Integral Meditation classes, dietary advice, and brief yoga sessions. We performed a randomized trial on two cohort of medical students from Italian universities: 239 in cohort 1 (106 treated and 133 controls), and 123 in cohort 2 (68 treated and 55 control) for a total sample of 362 students. Nine questionnaires for evaluating the effectiveness of our intervention on stress (PSS), state anxiety (STAIX-1), well-being (WEMWBS), mind-wandering (MW-S), overall distress (PANAS), emotion regulation (DERS), resilience (RS-14), and attentional control (ACS-C and ACS-D) were collected both pre and post intervention. Linear mixed effect models were run on the whole sample showing that, after multiple testing correction, our intervention was effective in reducing perceived stress (β = - 2.57 [- 4.02; - 1.12], p = 0.004), improving mental well-being (β = 2.82 [1.02; 4.63], p = 0.008) and emotional regulation (β = - 8.24 [- 12.98; - 3.51], p = 0.004), resilience (β = 3.79 [1.32; 6.26], p = 0.008), reducing the tendency to wander with the mind (β = - 0.70 [- 0.99; - 0.39], p = 0.0001), ameliorating the ability to maintain attention (AC-S (β = - 0.23 [- 0.44; - 0.02], p = 0.04) and AC-D (β = - 0.19 [- 0.36; - 0.01], p = 0.04)), and the overall distress (β = 1.84 [0.45; 3.23], p = 0.02).
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