Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Kumar Biswas (Management Information Systems), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Digital and in-person mindfulness-based interventions for university students’ mental health: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials” in the journal Healthcare (Impact factor 3.4), along with a coauthor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

The study found that mindfulness-based interventions significantly reduce depression and anxiety among university students, while effects on stress were mixed and context-dependent. Further, digital and technology-enhanced interventions are widely used and scalable, but they show variability in adherence and in the consistency of outcomes. Mindfulness interventions offer accessible, non-pharmacological strategies for improving student mental health and can be integrated into university health systems. Roy & Biswas are graduate assistants.