Participants
Three hundred and two participants were recruited through word-of-mouth and adverts posted on social media. Sixty-eight of them met the inclusion criteria (see below) and agreed to participate in the study. The participants were randomly assigned to a mindfulness training group (hereafter Training group, N = 35) and a waiting group (hereafter Control Group, N = 33). Three participants in the Training group did not complete the program (dropout rate = 8.6%), leaving a final sample of N = 32 (26 female, 