Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindfulness Mobile Application for Ruminative Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Rumination is a risk factor for the development of internalizing psychopathology that often emerges during adolescence. The goal of the present study was to test a mindfulness mobile app intervention designed to reduce rumination.

Method

Ruminative adolescents (N = 152; 59% girls, 18% racial/ethnic minority, Mage = 13.72, SD = .89) were randomly assigned to use a mobile app 3 times per day for 3 weeks that delivered brief mindfulness exercises or a mood monitoring-only control. Participants reported on rumination, depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms at baseline, post-intervention and at 3 follow-up timepoints: 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 6 months post-intervention. Parents reported on internalizing symptoms.

Results

There was a significa

SUBMITTER: Hilt LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10329729 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature