Neelam Oswal

Effect of ānāpāna meditation on attention and mental well-being in secondary school students: a mixed-methods evaluation.

Frontiers in Public Health 2026 Neelam Oswal, Pranita Jagtap, Pradnya Dasarwar

The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of regular ānāpāna practice, a beginning step of vipassanā meditation, in the framework of the MITRA program, over one academic year, on attention and mental well-being among secondary school students. Two classes of 8th-grade students from a single school were treated either as experimental group (EG: n = 44) or control group (CG: n = 45),...