Researchers report children who used a mindfulness app at home for 40 days showed improvements in several aspects of mental health, including reductions in stress and negative emotions such as loneliness and fear.
Many studies have found that practicing mindfulness -- defined as cultivating an open-minded attention to the present moment -- has benefits for children. Children who receive mindfulness training at school have demonstrated improvements in attention and behavior, as well as greater mental health.
"There is growing and compelling scientific evidence that mindfulness can support mental well-being and promote mental health in diverse children and adults," says John Gabrieli, the Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and the senior author of the study, which appears this week in the journalResearchers in Gabrieli's lab also recently reported that children who showed higher levels of mindfulness were more...
Among children who showed the highest levels of mindfulness, there was no correlation between how much the pandemic impacted them and negative feelings. However, in children with lower levels of mindfulness, there was a strong correlation between Covid-19 impact and negative emotions. For comparison purposes, the other two groups were asked to use an app for listening to audiobooks . One group was simply given the audiobook app and encouraged to listen at their own pace, while the other group also had weekly one-on-one virtual meetings with a facilitator.
The researchers were surprised to see that there were no significant differences in measures of anxiety and depression between the mindfulness group and audiobook groups; they hypothesize that may be because students who interacted with a facilitator in one of the audiobook groups also experienced beneficial effects on their mental health.
The research was funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as part of the Reach Every Reader Project, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.Scientists Develop 3D Printing Method That Shows Promise for Repairing Brain InjuriesIsaac N. Treves, Halie A. Olson, Ola Ozernov-Palchik, Cindy E. Li, Kimberly L. Wang, Xochitl M. Arechiga, Simon B. Goldberg, John D. E. Gabrieli.
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