Parent Engagement in Online Mindfulness Exercises Within a Parent Training Program for Post-Deployed Military Families

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Online mindfulness training has the potential to reduce military parents' stress level and improve their parenting practice, but little is known about the engagement level of military parents with online mindfulness training or the effectiveness of such training. This study investigated military parents' experiences of an online mindfulness training program. Results revealed modest participation rates of military parents and positive associations between training engagement and parents' dispositional mindfulness.

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Zhang, N., Rudi, J. H., Zamir, O., Gewirtz, A. H. (2017). Parent Engagement in Online Mindfulness Exercises Within a Parent Training Program for Post-Deployed Military Families. Mindfulness, doi:10.1007/s12671-017-0810-2