Resilience may help explain stress changes during an online program
A trial in Spanish health professionals examined psychological pathways linked to stress change during MINDxYOU, with resilience emerging as the most consistent statistical mediator.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
Resilience was the most consistent statistical link between the program and lower perceived stress, anxiety, and depression. Some mindfulness skills also appeared to play a role, but less consistently; compassion and acceptance did not show significant mediation. This analysis identifies possible pathways of change without proving that resilience itself caused the symptom reductions.
The abstract does not report the overall treatment effect on stress or the proportion explained by resilience. Randomized program timing does not by itself establish a causal role for a measured mediator.
How the program was studied
Groups moved from a control phase into the self-guided program at randomly assigned times. Researchers contacted participants weekly to encourage engagement, then used repeated questionnaires and mediation models to examine how psychological changes related to symptom changes.
What mediation means here
Mediation models ask whether changes in a candidate factor help statistically explain an intervention's relationship with an outcome. Here, resilience stood out even when other factors were considered together, while mindfulness findings varied across facets.
The original publication
Resilience as a Mediator in a Web-Based Intervention (MINDxYOU) to Reduce Stress Among Health Care Professionals: Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial.
Guerrero-Pertiñez G, Carbonell-Aranda V, Pérez-Guerrero G et al.
JMIR Ment Health · 2026
- PubMed ID
- 41662682
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