Beneficial effects of school-based mindfulness training on impulsivity in healthy adolescents: results from a pilot randomized controlled trial

Impulsivity and poor self-control have been associated with poor health behaviors among adolescents and are major obstacles to the adoption and maintenance of health-supporting behaviors in this population.1, 2 Interventions that effectively target impulsivity could thus positively affect health behaviors. Mindfulness is the awareness that arises by cultivating a particular way of paying attention (on purpose, non-judgmentally) to events unfolding in the mind, the body, and the environment at any given moment.

Source: Explore - August 22, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, Susan Druker, Florence Meleo-Meyer, Christine Frisard, Sybil Crawford, Lori Pbert Source Type: research