School-based yoga and mindfulness interventions for young adolescents: A qualitative study in a disadvantaged area.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

With raising rates of mental health problems, mind-body interventions are increasingly being integrated in schools to support children and adolescents' mental health and well-being. The aim of this study was to explore young adolescents' experiences of yoga and mindfulness and the acceptability of delivery within the school curriculum in an area of high deprivation.

Design

Qualitative group interviews with young adolescents embedded within a larger feasibility study exploring the universal (class-wide) delivery of yoga and mindfulness interventions.

Methods

After participation in separate 10-week yoga or mindfulness interventions, 45 adolescents (12-13 years old; 66.7% male) took part in semi-structured group interviews exploring perceptions, acceptability,

SUBMITTER: Sumner AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11920380 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature