Beneficial Effects of School-based Mindfulness Training On Impulsivity in Healthy Adolescents: Results From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since impulsivity is associated with unhealthy behaviors in adolescents, interventions targeting impulsivity could positively affect such behaviors. Whether integrating mindfulness training (MT) into standard school-based health education could improve impulsivity is unknown.

Purpose

To obtain preliminary estimates of effect of MT integrated in standard high school health education on impulsivity.

Methods

Two high schools in Massachusetts were randomized to school-based health education plus MT (HE-MT) or to health education plus attention control (HE-AC). The outcome was change in impulsivity at end of treatment (EOT) and 6 months after EOT.

Results

Students (n = 53; 30 HE-MT, 23 HE-AC) were on average 14.5 years old and 40% belonged to ethnic minor

SUBMITTER: Salmoirago-Blotcher E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9678328 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar - Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature