A Feasibility Study of a Remotely-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Training for Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Social distancing, home confinement, economic challenges, and COVID-19-related illness and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic can significantly affect mental health in youth. One promising approach to reduce anxiety and depression in adolescents is the neuroscience-based mindfulness intervention Training for Awareness, Resilience, and Action (TARA). The objective of this individually randomized waitlist-controlled trial (RCT) was (1) to test the feasibility of TARA, delivered partially over Zoom, and (2) to assess changes in the emotional wellbeing in healthy adolescents between the ages of 14-18 years old during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

Twenty-one healthy adolescents were randomized to the TARA intervention or to the waitlist control group in February 2020, just before the s

SUBMITTER: Tymofiyeva O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9133427 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature