Developing and evaluating a Portuguese-language meditation App for medical students: motivation, adherence, and emotional effects.

ABSTRACT: The well-being of medical students is affected by high stress levels. The relevance of a mindfulness mediation app (Med@Med) specifically produced to help medical students at a Portuguese medical school cope with stress was evaluated. The app, consisting of 21 short meditations, was totally developed in Portuguese to fulfill with the needs of some of the students. The motivations to use the app, adherence to it, and its emotional benefits were evaluated. A total of 147 medical students were enrolled in the study. Students completed questionnaires related to emotional regulation (Emotion Regulation of Others and Self) and emotional thermometers before the first meditation and at the end of the project. Before and after each meditation, the students were invited to identify their basic emoti

SUBMITTER: Soares AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11922080 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature