Mindfulness-Based Coping With University Life: A Randomized Wait-List Controlled Study
Sage Open June 14, 2019 Siobhan Lynch, Marie-Louise Gander, Ananda Nahar et al.
An 8-week mindfulness program adapted for university students, Mindfulness-Based Coping With University Life (MBCUL), led to significant reductions in anxiety, depression, and perceived stress, along with increased mindfulness, compared with a wait-list control group. The study involved students from the University of Northampton (mean age 25 in the mindfulness group, 28 in controls). Attrition was high and the sample small, limiting generalizability, but the results suggest MBCUL is an acceptable and useful program that merits further study with larger samples.