Identifying Common Patterns in the Time of Day of Mindfulness Meditation Associated with Long-Term Maintenance.

ABSTRACT: Forming a habit of practicing mindfulness meditation around the same time of day is one strategy that may support long-term maintenance and in turn improve physical and mental health. The purpose of this study was to identify common patterns in the time of day of meditation associated with long-term meditation app use to assess the importance of temporal consistency for maintaining meditation over time. App usage data were collected from a random sample of 15,000 users who had paid for an annual membership to a commercial meditation app in 2017. We constructed three measures of temporal consistency in the time of day of meditation sessions in order to categorize users into one of three behavioral phenotypes: Consistent, Inconsistent, or Indeterminate. Panel data models were used to compare

SUBMITTER: Fowers R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11939581 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature