How app-based mindfulness practice could improve children’s mental health
Live MintToday’s stressful environments can take a toll on the mental well-being of not just adults but also children. Previous studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that including mindfulness—the practice of focusing on one’s present—in schools could benefit children by improving their academic performance and reducing stress. Now, a new study has found that practising mindfulness remotely, using an app, could also improve children’s mental health. In 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic began and millions of students were sent home from school, a group of MIT researchers started investigating whether remote, app-based mindfulness practices could offer benefits similar to in-person intervention at schools. The findings of the new study reiterated this and found that after using remote, app-based mindfulness practice for eight weeks, children experienced more significant decreases in anger and sadness.
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