Highlights
- •Mindfulness is essential for PTSD symptom management in student veterans.
- •Smartphone-app mindfulness intervention is a feasible strategy for PTSD management.
- •The proposed mindfulness app can enhance student veterans' resilience.
Abstract
This single-arm, pre-post feasibility study evaluated the acceptability and initial
efficacy of a mindfulness smartphone-app intervention intended to promote resilience
and improve posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among college student military
veterans. The app contained mindfulness exercises and meditations based on the acceptance
and commitment therapy. Twenty-three student veterans used the app for four weeks.
The results showed high levels of perceived satisfaction and usability of the app.
Significant changes in resilience, mindfulness, PTSD, experiential avoidance, and
rumination were observed. Future research is needed to test the intervention in a
randomized controlled trial.
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Published online: February 12, 2020
Accepted:
February 8,
2020
Received:
December 30,
2019
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☆This research study involved human participants. All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of Research Integrity – Human Subjects, Reference # 1397146) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
☆Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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