Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training improved psychological resilience, posttraumatic growth, life satisfaction, and mindful attention awareness, and reduced depression, anxiety, and PTSD intrusive symptoms among medical students at a military college. A total of 372 students completed questionnaires before, after, and one month following the intervention; a control group did not receive MBSR. The MBSR group showed significant improvements not seen in controls, and most gains were partly maintained one month later. The findings suggest MBSR can benefit mental health in this high-stress population.
Higher levels of mindfulness among college students after a campus violent event are associated with lower post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and this relationship works partly through two linked factors: greater psychological resilience and lower perceived stress. Mindfulness positively correlates with resilience and negatively correlates with both stress perception and PTSD. Resilience and stress perception each independently mediate the mindfulness–PTSD link, and they also act in sequence: resilience predicts lower stress perception, which in turn relates to lower PTSD. The findings suggest that mindfulness may buffer trauma responses by strengthening resilience and reducing how stressful students perceive events to be.
Young adults with high trait anxiety had lower gut bacterial diversity and a different microbial composition than healthy controls. An eight-week mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) program reduced trait anxiety and depression, improved mindfulness and resilience, and shifted the gut microbiota toward a profile more similar to that of healthy controls. A high pre-treatment abundance of the bacterium Subdoligranulum was associated with greater responsiveness to MBCT, and decreases in Subdoligranulum after treatment corresponded with reduced anxiety. Tryptophan metabolism pathways were more active in high responders than in low responders.