Mindfulness Takes Practice

Recruitment: Participants will be recruited for a "health and well-being" study starting July, 2020. Interested participants will be directed to a Qualtrics link to complete an online eligibility screener. The screener will take approximately 3 minutes to complete (See Eligibility Survey). The survey will be free, voluntary, and available online. Participants will be allowed to skip questions in the survey. Eligibility: Once eligibility is determined, eligible participants will be sent an informed consent. Ineligible participants will be sent an email notifying their status and why. Once an informed consent is signed and received, the participant will be notified of their random assignment and study start date. Participants will be randomized via an online randomizer (i.e., randomizer.com) to either the Anchor Group (intervention) or the control group. Enrollment: The Research Team will email the participants instructions to download Calm (See Participant Scripts). On their study start date the participant will be sent their baseline questionnaires via a Qualtrics link. The measures will be online and should take approximately 20 minutes to complete (See Baseline Questionnaires). Intervention: The study will run for 8-weeks. Intervention participants will receive access to the mobile application Calm and be recommended to participate in the meditation features. Each participant will receive push notifications related to, tracking sessions completed, reminders, mood symptom tracking, and group-specific goal reminders. The intervention group will be provided an anchoring strategy video on the persistence of daily meditation practice and receive anchoring strategy specific push notification study reminders. The control group will receive access to the mobile application Calm and be recommended to participate in the meditation features but will not be asked to watch the anchoring strategy video. The control group will also receive push notification reminders however, they will not be anchor strategy specific (See Push Notifications). Tracking: Participation in the Calm meditations will be tracked (app feature used, time of day used, and time spent in meditation) by the Calm informatics team. Additionally, they will answer one, multiple-choice EMA (ecological momentary assessment) question each evening (see Study Questionnaires). Post-study: Post-study questionnaires and the satisfaction survey will be emailed to intervention and control participants via a link from Qualtrics (See Post-study questionnaires). The post-intervention surveys will be online and take about 20 minutes and the satisfaction survey will take about 5 minutes. Follow up: Participants will receive a follow up survey to complete via Qualtrics at 16 weeks. Follow up questionnaires and the satisfaction survey will be emailed to intervention and control participants via a link from Qualtrics. The follow up surveys will be online and take about 20 minutes and the satisfaction survey will take about 5 minutes. The follow up surveys will be identical to the post-study questionnaires.