Mindfulness, wellbeing, and engagement

INTERVENTION: Study Design and Intervention Part A of the study will randomly allocate participants to either a movement‐based mindfulness group, a seated mindfulness group, or a control group, using Qualtrics, and ask them to practice daily for 4 weeks. These practices will be from the Oxford Mindfulness Centres Mindfulness‐Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programme and are between 8‐10 minutes in length. At the end of the study, participants will be asked if they would like to continue to a second study. Participants will complete questionnaires on mindfulness, wellbeing, rumination, previous experience of mindfulness, and participant demographics. Data on the engagement with the practice will be collected from the online system Panopto to see how often the practice was played. Participants will then be asked whether they wish to continue to a second 8‐week long mindfulness study. Part B explores engagement with mindfulness and influencing factors including demographics and wellbeing. The study will investigate whether pre‐exposure to a short mindfulness programme of either seated or movement‐based mindfulness influences their engagement with a longer practice. The longer practice will entail the audio meditations from The Palouse Mindfulness‐based Stress Reduction (MBSR) 8‐week course (Kabat‐Zinn, 1990). The Palouse online MBSR programme consists of 30‐minute‐long mindfulness exercises daily for an 8‐week period. Data between the three groups will be compared (previous exposure to mindful movement, previous exposure to seated mindfulness, and no pre‐exposure to mindfulness). Participants will complete the same questionnaires on mindfulness and wellbeing at the beginning of the study, at the end of Part A, and at the en CONDITION: Engagement and wellbeing outcomes of different types of mindfulness interventions ; Mental and Behavioural Disorders PRIMARY OUTCOME: ; Engagement with the mindfulness interventions will be measured to determine if participants accessed the audio recordings using:; 1. Panopto software through Moodle will be collected continuously throughout the 12 weeks of the study at daily timepoints to; 2. Self‐report questionnaires will be collected at baseline and week 4 of Part A, and baseline and week 8 of Part B; 3. Participant uptake of the second part of the study will be collected at baseline of Part B of the study; SECONDARY OUTCOME: Wellbeing measured using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS), the Ruminative Response Scale (RRS), and the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), at baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Students from the University of St Andrews 2. Aged 18 years old or over 3. Not experiencing any severe mental health issues (self‐reported)