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Feasibility of a mindfulness-based intervention to address youth issues in Vietnam
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Le, T. N.,Trieu, D. T.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Oxford University Press
- 출판년도2016
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Health Promotion International
- 발행사항Vol.31No.2[2016]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN0957-4824
- 소개/요약Youth problems including risky sex, drug use, violence and mental health issues are on the rise in Vietnam. Mindfulness is proposed as one way to address unskillful responses to stress that give rise to these behavioral and psychosocial issues in Vietnam. This study explores the feasibility of a mindfulness program for adolescents and young adults in a central city in Vietnam. The mindfulness-based intervention was comprised 1-h daily session over 3 weeks that was conducted at two different sites, one with handicapped adolescents/young adults at the Vocational School for Handicapped and the other with at-risk youth at a semi-private high school. Forty-two Vietnamese youth participants and five Vietnamese teachers/facilitators who were trained in the mindfulness program provided personal reflections of their experiences. Analyses of the qualitative data suggest that mindfulness was enthusiastically received and accepted by both youth and teachers. There is strong indication that mindfulness is promising as a prevention strategy to help with stress and to build important life skills among Vietnamese youth.
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