ArticleMindfulness2023
Mental and Physical Health Impacts of Mindfulness Training for College Undergraduates: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Article in Mindfulness, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06423053 (A Randomized Controlled Trial of a College Human Physiology Course With Integrated Mindfulness Practice on Student Applied and Trait Mindfulness, Well-being, and Physiological Stress Reactivity), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a College Human Physiology Course With Integrated Mindfulness Practice on Student Applied and Trait Mindfulness, Well-being, and Physiological Stress Reactivity (2026)
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Mental health in university students: an umbrella review grading the evidence for psychosocial interventions.BMJ mental health · 2026Pooled it
- Mindfulness for heart and mind: Mindfulness-based blood pressure reduction randomized clinical trial for depression symptoms.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Trial
- Effect of app-based mindfulness on extinction recall - a 7T-fMRI study.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Two weeks to tune in: Evaluating the effects of a short-term body scan on interoception.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Trial
- Health and Emotional Modulation through Vipassana Meditation: A Pre-experimental Study.Annals of African medicine · 2026Article
- Eight-Week Mindfulness Training Effectively Improves Performance in Children with ADHD: A Comparison with Cognitive-Behavioral Training.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Mindfulness and Psychological Distress in College Student-Athletes: The Mediating Roles of Cognitive Reappraisal and Subjective Vitality.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Childhood trauma and anxiety symptoms among Chinese university students: the moderating and mediating roles of mindfulness.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- "I definitely think I can flourish": Exploring First Year College Student Experiences in a Flourishing-focused Class.Counselling psychology quarterly · 2026Article
- Mindfulness exercise and mental health among university students: the sequential mediating roles of sleep regularity and self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Mechanics of Mindfulness: Investigating Metacognitive Beliefs as a Pathway of Effect on Anxiety and Depression.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
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- Identifying the Changing Landscape of Younger Adult Mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2021.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Observational
- Long-term effects of combined mindfulness intervention and app intervention compared to single interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Acceptability, engagement, and preliminary efficacy of a college human physiology course with integrated mindfulness practice to support student wellbeing.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Universities increasingly offer mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) to improve student health and reduce their impact on overburdened psychological services. It is critical for evidence-based policy to determine for what health outcomes mindfulness programs are effective and under what conditions. Objectives were to: (a) perform a comprehensive analysis of the effects of mindfulness interventions on physical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes in college undergraduate students, and (b) examine moderators of intervention effects to identify factors that may help improve existing university mindfulness programs and guide the design of new programs. Method: Systematic searches of five databases identified MBP randomized controlled trials for undergraduate students, measuring any health outcome. Analyses using robust variance estimation focused on standardized mean differences for outcomes between groups and modeled through coded study features. Results: The 58 studies in the review primarily focused on mental health with fewer assessments of physical health or health behaviors. Overall, mindfulness interventions significantly outperformed both active and inactive controls ( Conclusions: Mindfulness programs improve well-being in college students, with the strongest evidence for reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms. More studies utilizing stronger methods are needed to evaluate mindfulness programs' effects on additional health outcomes and online interventions in clinical populations.
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