Eight short mindfulness lessons helped teenage girls put off schoolwork less
Who it’s about: Children, Students
- Helped
After eight short lessons on calm breathing and hard thoughts, girls put off schoolwork less than girls without lessons.
Small randomised trial of 88 eighth-grade girls in Tehran, Iran · vs girls who got no lessons · they rated themselves · ⚠ numbers unreliable
The study
Who took part
Eighth-grade girls from two girls' schools in Tehran, Iran, chosen because they put off schoolwork a lot. The paper says 88 girls took part, but its own numbers suggest only about 48 were counted.
What they did
One group had eight 25-minute mindfulness lessons, two a week. They practised calm breathing, noticing feelings in the body, relaxing, accepting unpleasant thoughts and feelings, and changing unhelpful thoughts. The other group got no lessons.
What happened
Girls who had the lessons rated themselves as putting off schoolwork less at the end than the girls who got nothing. Parts of the paper's text are garbled and its numbers don't add up, so we can't give sizes. There was no later check.
Source
اثربخشی آموزش ذهنآگاهی بر تعللورزی تحصیلی، و استرس تحصیلی دانشآموزان دختر پایۀ هشتم (2019)
DOI: 10.22054/jep.2019.24967.1948 (opens in a new tab)Tools in this study
Action5
Challenge unhelpful thoughtsCognitive restructuring of beliefs such as perfectionism or catastrophising.
