دورية أكاديمية
Impact of a University-Wide Interdisciplinary Mind-Body Skills Program on Student Mental and Emotional Well-Being
| العنوان: | Impact of a University-Wide Interdisciplinary Mind-Body Skills Program on Student Mental and Emotional Well-Being |
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| المؤلفون: | Brenna K Novak BS, Anna Gebhardt BS, Harini Pallerla MS, Susan Blocksom McDonald MA, Aviad Haramati PhD, Sian Cotton PhD |
| المصدر: | Global Advances in Health and Medicine, Vol 9 (2020) |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publishing, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine (General) LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine (General), R5-920, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| الوصف: | Background Positive effects of mind-body skills programs on participant well-being have been reported in health professions students. The success seen with medical students at this university led to great interest in expanding the mind-body skills program so students in other disciplines could benefit from the program. Objective The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a 9-week mind-body skills program on the mental and emotional well-being of multidisciplinary students compared to controls. We also sought to determine if the program’s effects were sustained at 1-year follow-up. Methods A cross-sectional pre-post survey was administered online via SurveyMonkey to participants of a 9-week mind-body skills program and a control group of students from 7 colleges at a public university from 2017–2019. Students were assessed on validated measures of stress, positive/negative affect, resilience, depression, anxiety, fatigue, sleep disturbance, mindfulness, empathy, and burnout. Scores were analyzed between-groups and within-groups using bivariate and multivariate analyses. A 1-year follow-up was completed on a subset of participants and controls. Results 279 participants and 247 controls completed the pre-survey and post-survey (79% response rate; 71% female, 68% white, mean age = 25 years). Participants showed significant decreases in stress, negative affect, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, and burnout, while positive affect, resilience, mindfulness, and empathy increased significantly ( P < .05). Only sleep disturbance showed a significant decrease in the control group. Follow-up in a subset of participants showed that only mindfulness remained elevated at 1-year ( P < .05), whereas the significant changes in other well-being measures were not sustained. Conclusion Participation in a 9-week mind-body skills program led to significant improvement in indicators of well-being in multidisciplinary students. A pilot 1-year follow-up suggests that effects are only sustained for mindfulness, but not other parameters. Future programming should focus on implementing mind-body skills booster sessions to help sustain the well-being benefits. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2164-9561 21649561 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2164-9561 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2164956120973983 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/6a387d376c064619b96ca51d504d21dd |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.6a387d376c064619b96ca51d504d21dd |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 21649561 |
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| DOI: | 10.1177/2164956120973983 |