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CARE4PARENTS INTERNATIONAL: EMPOWERING AND CONNECTING PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH 22Q11.2 DELETION AND DUPLICATION SYNDROME AROUND THE WORLD THROUGH MINDFULNESS<\/h3>\n

Project by: Dr. Sasja N. Duijff, Prof. Dr. Linda E Campbell
\n22qMinded
\nFunded by the MindMore Foundation in 2024-2026<\/p>\n

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Parents caring for children with complex needs often experience poorer physical and mental health compared to parents of typically developing children. However, while parents of a child with a chronic illness will do anything for their child, they often neglect their own needs. To empower parents to look after their own health and wellbeing is not only important for the carers themselves but will also have a positive impact on the people they care for.<\/p>\n

Care4Parents is an online, 8-week programme, including a follow-up session, designed specifically for parents of children with 22q11.2 deletion & duplication syndrome (22q11.2DS). It focuses on teaching mindfulness skills to help parents manage parenting stress, handle conflicts, foster empathy, set limits, improve communication, and cope with chronic sorrow. This programme aims to support parents emotionally and mentally, helping them to be more resilient and effective in their caregiving roles. Care4Parents aims to reduce stress and anxiety, enhance mindful parenting skills, conflict resolution and stronger support networks, foster a deeper understanding of 22q11.2DS and mindfulness techniques, and improved communication and healthy boundary-setting within the family. Sessions are led by clinical psychologists specialising in parenting, mindfulness, and 22q11.2DS.<\/p>\n

We are committed to making Care4Parents accessible worldwide. With the help of the MindMore Foundation, we hope to offer this programme at a subsidised rate, ensuring that financial barriers do not prevent parents from participating. Participants will also connect with parents facing similar challenges from around the world, building a supportive global network. We plan to run Care4Parents 8 times in 3 years, reaching \u00b1 100 parents globally. By operating simultaneously from both the Netherlands and Australia, we can accommodate parents from various time zones.<\/p>\n

www.22qMinded.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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PROMOTING RESILIENCE IN\u00a0YOUTH THROUGH\u00a0MINDFULNESS MEDITATION (PRYME)<\/h3>\n

Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial investigating the effects of mindfulness training as add-on to care-as-usual on internalizing problems, mental illness development, and associated brain and cognitive processes in help-seeking youth<\/p>\n

Project by: Maud Schepers, Paul Lagerweij, Dirk Geurts, Florian Krause, Hanneke den Ouden, Roshan Cools, Anne Speckens and Guusje Collin
\nRadboudumc Center for Mindfulness and Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (DCCN)
\nFunded by the MindMore Foundation in 2025<\/p>\n

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Background<\/strong> Internalizing problems, such as worrying, anxiety and low mood, are increasingly common in youth and may constitute an early stage of mental illness development. There is thus an urgent need for effective measures to address mental health complaints as they develop and to prevent progression into more serious mental illness. Enhanced understanding of early-stage mental illness development, associated cognitive and brain processes, and their amenability to early intervention is crucial to this effort. Mindfulness-based interventions offer an accessible intervention option with demonstrated positive effects on internalizing disorders such as depression. Furthermore, mindfulness-based interventions may modulate cognitive processes and brain activity patterns associated with internalizing disorders. This study aims to determine how early-stage mindfulness-based intervention impacts internalizing symptom development, associated cognitive and brain processes, and mental illness progression in help-seeking youth.<\/p>\n

Methods<\/strong> This longitudinal two-arm randomized controlled trial will be conducted in 155 help-seeking youth between 16 and 25 years of age. The investigational treatment, the Learning to Offset Stress program, is an adaptation of existing mindfulness-based programs. Developed for youth with internalizing problems, the training com bines mindfulness exercises with mindful physical activity and yoga in 8 weekly 2-hour sessions. Participants are randomized to either Learning to Offset Stress program as an add on to care-as-usual, or care-as-usual-only. Assessments take place at baseline, end of treatment, and 2 months and 6 months after completion of treatment. The primary outcome is the level of internalizing problems measured with the internalizing subscale of the Adult Self Report questionnaire at end of treatment. Secondary outcomes include measures of self-compassion, rumination, experiential avoidance, and well-being. In addition, (functional) magnetic resonance imaging and computerized cognitive tasks are conducted at baseline and at end of treatment. Discussion<\/strong> The current randomized controlled trial aims to enhance our understanding of the trajectory of emerging mental illness, associated cognitive and brain processes, and their modulation by early-stage mindfulness-based intervention.<\/p>\n

www.pryme-studie.nl<\/a><\/p>\n

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SAVOR & SETTLE: A MINDFUL PATH PROMOTING WELLBEING THROUGH REDUCING STRESS AND FOOD CRAVINGS<\/h3>\n

Project by: Calorta Y. Tan, Dr. Junilla K. Larsen, Dr. Sandra Thijssen, Prof. Dr. Jacqueline M. Vink
\nBehavioural Science Institute, Radboud University
\nFunded by the MindMore Foundation in 2025-2026<\/p>\n

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Stress-induced food cravings are often difficult to resist, and engaging in such stress-related eating behaviours can, in turn, contribute to negative emotions and reduced well-being. In this project, we are tailoring MORE (Mindfulness Oriented Recovery Enhancement, Garland et al., 2019), a successful mindfulness program originally targeting addiction, to address problems with unhealthy eating and stress. To promote widespread implementation of the intervention, the current project aims to prove scientific effectiveness as well show what mechanisms improve the interventions effectivity. As young adults may struggle with these issues the most, we are specifically targeting individuals aged 18\u201335 who are experiencing stress and dysregulated eating.<\/p>\n

During this project, 120 individuals will be provided the opportunity to take part in the adapted MORE intervention free of charge. In our version of MORE, each session includes meditation exercises, and practical skills that reduce stress related eating and improve emotional well-being. Participants will learn how to mindfully respond to stressors and food cravings, reappraise stressful events, and savour positive experiences. By building these abilities, the program helps reduce automatic reactivity to unhealthy food cues and lowers craving levels, as well as reducing the impact of stress and negative emotions while strengthening emotional regulation. Thus, this program has a high potential to improve well-being and reduce food craving among young adults who are vulnerable to stress and dysregulated eating.<\/p>\n

We require funding to run this project successfully. First, funding will enable us to run targeted online advertisements to recruit participants who could profit most from this project. Posting flyers in specific locations only reaches a small part of our target audience and has limitations. Online ads can precisely reach people who are actively seeking ways to improve their eating and reduce stress. Second, the funding will help us to disseminate the project with the aim of promoting the well-being of all people (see \u201cProject activities\u201d for details). Third, funding will allow us to compensate participants for their time spent on surveys and EEG, eminent tools for understanding \u2018what works for whom and why\u2019.<\/p>\n

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TRANSFORMING EMBODIED MENTAL HEALTH IN TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS THROUGH MINDFULNESS-BASED INTERVENTION: PHASE 2 (TRANSMIND2)<\/h3>\n

Project by: Kate Skorobogatova, MSc, Guusje Collin, MD, PhD
\nRadboudUMC Center of Expertise for Mindfulness, Nijmegen
\nFunded by the MindMore Foundation in 2026<\/p>\n

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Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals experience a profound mismatch between their biological sex and gender identity that can cause a deep discomfort known as gender dysphoria, and a sense of alienation from the body, with many individuals not feeling at home in their own skin. As embodiment is crucial for mental health, this sense of disconnection from the body may contribute to mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and suicidality, which are prevalent in this population. Gender-affirming care can reduce risk for depression and suicidality, but the prevalence of mental health problems remains elevated after gender-affirming care. Moreover, access to gender care is hindered by insufficient capacity and long waiting times that cause psychological distress and further exacerbate mental health problems. There is thus a strong need for additional support for TGD individuals, to promote their mental health and well-being. As mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) enhance body awareness and stress coping abilities, MBI may help TGD individuals reconnect to their \u201clived body\u201d, fostering a sense of being at home in their own skin, and cultivate embodied coping skills, whereby promoting mental health and resilience. However, earlier pilot work by our group has shown that MBI practices like the bodyscan can be particularly challenging for TGD individuals, similar to observations in people with trauma, and require gender-sensitive guidance and support. As a Centre of Expertise for Mindfulness, we aim to develop this expertise through the current project, with the end-goal of including TGD group-MBCT as part of our standard mindfulness-based treatment offer. Following the pilot we conducted in 2025 in TGD individuals with no current mental health complaints, we will now invite a larger group of individuals with ongoing mental health challenges and examine acceptability, feasibility, preliminary effects, and possible adverse effects using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods.<\/p>\n

The project is expected to provide further evidence regarding the acceptability and preliminary effects of gender-inclusive MBCT on mental health generally, and on body awareness and emotion regulation as proposed underlying mechanism of mental health, and conversely mental ill health in TGD individuals. Findings from both phases of the TransMind pilot study will be integrated and disseminated through scientific publications.<\/p>\n

In addition, the project will contribute to the development of expertise in gender-sensitive mindfulness within the Radboudumc Center of Expertise for Mindfulness. Ultimately, the knowledge gained from this project will support the integration of mindfulness-based interventions into the standard treatment offer for TGD individuals, providing an additional source of psychological support before, during, and after gender-affirming care, that is geared towards the strengthening the connection to the lived body -or the body as it is experienced from within- as adjunct to standard gender care.<\/p>\n

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