Participants
depression, mental illness, anxiety, psychosis
RECRUITMENT
The Mindful Student Study was a pragmatic randomised trial at the UoC in the UK.The trial inclusion criteria were: (a) undergraduate or postgraduate UoC students and (b) who were interested in attending at least seven sessions of the course. The exclusion criteria were: (a) severe anxiety or depression at that time; (b) severe mental illness such as psychosis; (c) recent bereavement and (d) any other serious health problem that would affect their ability to engage with the course. The selection criteria were assessed by the students themselves.The study was advertised widely to the student community, using physical (posters), social media (eg, Facebook and Twitter) and information sessions—see Students were recruited in two cohorts: at the beginning of the autumn (Michaelmas) term and at the beginning of the spring (Lent) term. Both cohorts were followed up at: point of recruitment (T0); after the delivery of the mindfulness courses (SAU having Participant timeline. Reproduced from Galante This study was approved by the Cambridge Psychology Research Ethics Committee on 25 August 2015 (reference: PRE.2015.060). The study is registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12615001160527). The Health Economic Analysis Plan (HEAP) that this economic evaluation follows was prespecified and is available online.