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Mind7+ Mindfulness based program for university students: preliminary results

Mind7+ Mindfulness based program for university students: preliminary results - Maria Paula Pinto

After 8 weeks there was a significant improvement in subjective well-being, particularly an increase in life meaning and global life satisfaction, and a decrease in feelings of depression, as well as an improvement in sleep quality.

Figure 1: Impact of Mind7+ program in subjective well-being. Analysis was performed by paired samples test (N=18, number of participants who filled the starting and ending questionnaires); 9-SWB, global subjective well-being = mean of the nine items, with negative items inverted for calculation; positive dimension = mean of feelings of efficiency, energy, happiness, and evaluation of life meaning and global life satisfaction; negative dimension = mean of feelings of being incapable of leading with everything in hands, feeling nervous and stressed, feeling depressed and feeling worried. All items were assessed in a Likert scale of 0 to 10. Significance: * p<0.05; ** p< 0.01 (one-sided p-value).

Table 1: Impact of Mind7+ on sleep quality

 

Sleep quality

PSQI Mean ± sd

One sided P- value for paired t-test

Effect size

Point estimate (95%CI)

Pre-intervention

4.9 ± 3.4

0.01

0.602 (0.096, 1.092)

Pos-intervention

3.0 ± 2.0

N= 17 (number of participants that filled correctly the starting and ending questionnaires). PSQI score: 0= better sleep quality; 15= worse sleep quality.