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Int J Environ Res Public Health
December 2024
School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA.
Health risk behaviors continue to disproportionately affect Hispanic youth. Despite the existence of successful family and school-based interventions, there is a need for developing and testing individually-based preventive interventions that are easily accessed and widely disseminated. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a prototype (proof of concept) for an individual-level mobile application (app), informed by Hispanic parents and adolescents, to prevent/reduce drug use and sexual risk behaviors among Hispanic youth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExisting studies suggest that mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can reduce ADHD symptoms when delivered as targeted clinical programs to young people diagnosed with ADHD. However, there is currently a lack of research on whether MBIs are effective in reducing elevated ADHD symptoms when delivered as universal programs to whole classes in schools. This study investigated the effects of a universal nine-week MBI (.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChild Adolesc Ment Health
December 2024
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
There is an urgent need to improve mental health outcomes among young people. One approach taken to address this problem has been the design and delivery of universal school-based prevention, based on therapeutic models such as CBT and mindfulness. Such interventions are delivered to groups of young people, irrespective of risk or need.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCureus
October 2024
Department of Physiology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
In recent years, Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) has become a major mental health concern among adolescents, with detrimental effects on social relationships, academic performance, and emotional well-being. The focus of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on improving self-awareness, emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility has drawn interest in MBIs as possible therapeutic approaches for treating IAD. The purpose of this narrative review is to investigate how mindfulness interventions affect teenagers who are experiencing IAD.
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October 2024
Department of Basic Sciences, International University of Catalonia (UIC), Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain.
Introduction: School offers a key context to promote resilience. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a school-based resilience intervention in 578 at-risk adolescents aged 12 to 15, emphasizing the significance of resilience improving mental health.
Methods: A cluster-randomized controlled trial with parallel arms was conducted during the 2021/22 academic course.
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