Nonrandomized Open Trial of a Mindfulness- and Compassion-Based Selective Preventive Mobile Health Intervention for Forcibly Displaced People.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study tested the feasibility of Mindfulness-SOS for Refugees, a novel lay- and minimally guided mobile health mindfulness- and compassion-based intervention, that is trauma-sensitive and socio-culturally adapted for diverse forcibly displaced people.

Method

A pre-registered, nonrandomized, single-arm, open-trial of Mindfulness-SOS as a selective preventive intervention was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, among 60 Eritrean asylum-seekers living in an unstable urban post-displacement setting in the Middle East (Israel). Measures included digital usage metrics, and self-report measures of stress- and trauma-related mental health and socio-contextual stressors.

Results

Asylum-seekers (n = 58) demonstrated high rates of adherence to the sessi

SUBMITTER: Zohar Puris S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12494159 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature