Using Personalized Anchors to Establish Routine Meditation Practice With a Mobile App: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical and mental health benefits can be attained from persistent, long-term performance of mindfulness meditation with a mobile meditation app, but in general, few mobile health app users persistently engage at a level necessary to attain the corresponding health benefits. Anchoring or pairing meditation with a mobile app to an existing daily routine can establish an unconsciously initiated meditation routine that may improve meditation persistence.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to test the use of either personalized anchors or fixed anchors for establishing a persistent meditation app routine with the mobile app, Calm.

Methods

We conducted a randomized controlled trial and randomly assigned participants to one of 3 study groups: (1) a personal

SUBMITTER: Stecher C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8734923 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature