Research Article
A Novel Heart-Centered, Gratitude-Meditation Intervention to Increase Well-Being among Adolescents
Table 2
Participants’ study-related characteristics by treatment group.
| | Characteristic | Control group
(%) | Treatment group
(%) | Total cohort
(%) | Statistic
value |
| | Meditation experience (prior—all levels) | | | | Cramer’s V
| | No experience | 16 (64.0%) | 12 (40.0%) | 28 (50.9%) | | Few times | 7 (28.0%) | 7 (23.3%) | 14 (25.5%) | | Many times | 2 (0.8%) | 11 (36.7%) | 13 (23.6%) |
| | Meditation experience (prior—collapsed) | | | | Fischer’s Exact
| | No experience | 16 (64.0%) | 12 (40.0%) | 28 (50.9%) | | Some experience | 9 (36.0%) | 18 (60.0%) | 27 (49.1%) |
| | Experience invoking gratitude (prior) | | | | Cramer’s V
| | Never do | 2 (8.0%) | 1 (3.3%) | 3 (5.4%) | | Sometimes I do | 13 (52.0%) | 18 (60.0%) | 31 (56.4%) | | Very often | 10 (40.0%) | 11 (36.7%) | 21 (38.2%) |
| | Gratitude experience (prior—collapsed) | | | | Fischer’s Exact
| | Never/sometimes | 13 (60.0%) | 19 (63.3%) | 34 (61.8%) | | Very often | 10 (40.0%) | 11 (36.7%) | 21 (38.2%) |
| | Intervention practice frequency (collapsed) | | | | Descriptive
Min = 3
Max = 41
Median = 11 | | ≤6 times | — | 7 (23.3%) | — | | 7–10 times | — | 7 (23.3%) | — | | 11–14 times | — | 7 (23.3%) | — | | ≥15 times | — | 9 (30.0%) | — |
| | Stressful life event (during the study) | | | | Fisher’s Exact
| | No | 17 (68%) | 12 (40%) | 29 (52.7%) | | Yes | 8 (32%) | 18 (60%) | 26 (47.3%) |
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