Phase 1: Quantitative measures
The data described below comes from participants who completed at least 75% of the training. Some attrition occurred prior to the start of and over the course of the study, and not all participants completed the eight-week training. Participants who did not attend the training or had poor attendance chose not to complete the survey instruments. The initially enrolled sample was 73 (38 were assigned to the intervention group and 35 to the control group), composed of individuals who consented to the study and completed the pre-test. 24 participants in the intervention group and 34 participants in the control group completed both the pre- and post-test surveys and passed all built-in attention checks. The summative survey, conducted after both the intervention and control groups had completed the training, was completed by 14 participants assigned to the intervention group and 21 to the control group.The majority of the participants (48 out of 57 respondents) had little to some familiarity with mindfulness prior to the study, as indicated by their responses to a question in the pre-test. Six reported no familiarity at all and three reported “a great deal” of familiarity.Independent t-tests were conducted to compare groups at baseline (i.e., at pre-test) for demographic variables and outcome measures. Despite the use of random assignment to groups, analyses revealed that those assigned to the intervention group were significantly lower on the To analyze the data, Repeated Measures ANOVA’s (RMANOVA’s) were conducted for each outcome variable, with Time (Time 1 and Time 2) specified as the within-subject factor and Group (intervention vs. control) specified as the between-group factor. Pre- and post-test scores for each group are presented in 