Do mindfulness and cognitive-behavioural interventions reduce common mental health difficulties in university and college students?
Mindfulness and cognitive-behavioural interventions are effective for reducing mental health difficulties in university students, though gaps remain in evidence for setting-based and specific training interventions.
The review of reviews located a sizeable body of evidence on specific interventions such as mindfulness and cognitive-behavioural interventions. The evidence suggests that these interventions can effectively reduce common mental health difficulties in the higher education student body. Gaps and limitations in the reviews and the underlying body of evidence have been identified. These include a notable gap in the existing body of review-level evidence on setting-based interventions, acceptance and commitment training, and interventions for students attending colleges in UK settings.
Worsley et al. (Fri,) studied this question.