Research Article
Medical Students’ Experience of Mindfulness Training in the UK: Well-Being, Coping Reserve, and Professional Development
Table 2
Recruitment to the qualitative study.
| Year of study when attending the mindfulness course | Gender | Reasons for attending the course | Who referred them to the mindfulness course |
| 2 | F | Shift from academic learning to clinical placements in year 2 was stressful | Student advisor | 3 | F | Feeling stressed. Wanting to manage thoughts/feelings. Seeing benefit of mindfulness in a friend | Student advisor | 1 | F | Feeling stressed, isolated, withdrawn | Student advisor | 2 | F | Feeling down, subdued, and actively stressed | Student advisor | 2 | M | Finding the course stressful. Wanting to learn coping mechanisms. | Student advisor | 3 | F | Recovery from eating disorder and learning to cope better with stress | Student GP |
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