Outcomes
depression, anxiety
SECONDARY
Demographic data (age, gender, marital status, undergraduate year, and college) and baseline scores of the mentioned measures were acquired first (time 0). Then, the subjects who completed this stage were allocated to MBSR and waitlist groups. At the end of the program (time 1), the same measures were collected again along with the number of attended sessions. The primary outcome was the difference in means between the post-test results of both groups in the stress scale. The secondary outcomes of the study included the difference in means between the post-test results of both groups in depression, anxiety, and mindfulness status scales. Also, follow-up data which were collected after 3 months (time 2) to observe the ongoing effect of the MBSR program between the study groups, by comparing the means of all study measures. In addition, assessing the association between the attendance rate of the MBSR sessions (from 0 to 8 sessions) with the mean difference between time 0 and time 1 of all study measures in the MBSR group. Lastly, evaluating the difference in means of all study measures among males (time 1 versus time 0) and females (time 1 versus time 0) allocated to the MBSR group.