Does baseline psychiatric symptom severity predict well-being improvement in low-intensity mindfulness interventions?
Psychiatry research communications September 1, 2024 Alexandra K Gold, Dustin J Rabideau, Daniel Nolte et al. 2 citations
People with more severe anxiety, depression, or social difficulties initially improved in well-being during low-intensity mindfulness interventions (three or eight sessions), but those with worse symptoms tended not to sustain improvements and rebounded toward baseline during follow-up. The findings suggest that such brief mindfulness-based treatments can still be clinically useful for individuals with more severe mental health symptoms, as they experienced initial improvement, but offering longer-duration treatment might prevent symptom rebounding.