Digital Meditation to Target Employee Stress: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA network open January 2, 2025 Rachel M Radin, Julie Vacarro, Elena Fromer et al. 11 citations
A brief digital mindfulness meditation program, compared to a waiting list, reduced perceived stress and job strain among employees of a large academic medical center. In a randomized clinical trial with 1458 adults (mostly female, average age 35.5 years), those assigned to 10 minutes of daily meditation for 8 weeks showed moderate to large improvements in stress and secondary outcomes like burnout and work engagement at 8 weeks, and these benefits persisted at 4 months. Greater daily use of the app (5 to 9.9 minutes versus less than 5 minutes) was linked to larger stress reductions. The findings suggest that a scalable digital meditation program can effectively lower stress in the workplace.