RUNNING HEAD: Mindfulness on-the-go Mindfulness on-the-go: Effects of a mindfulness meditation app on work stress and well-being *Sophie Bostocka,1, *Alexandra D. Crosswellb, Aric A. Pratherb, & Andrew Steptoec a Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom; b Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; c Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom *Authors contributed equally. Funding Acknowledgement: S.B. and A.S. were supported by the British Heart Foundation; A.D.C. and A.A.P. were supported by the National Institute on Aging (R24AG048024); A.A.P. was also supported by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (K08HL112961). Corresponding Author: Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Alexandra D. Crosswell, Phone: +1 (415) 476-7421; Email:
[email protected] Conflict of interest: Headspace® provided access to the app for free and provided app usage data. Headspace® employee Andy Puddicombe led the ‘introductory talk’ for participants at the start of the study, 1 Present affiliation: University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3BD, UK; Big Health Ltd, London, UK 1 RUNNING HEAD: Mindfulness on-the-go and then had no contact with subjects, involvement in data analysis, or drafting of the manuscript. Sophie Bostock currently works for Big Health, Ltd, which designs behavioural medicine apps. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Andy Puddicombe who ran the introductory sessions for participants and to Headspace® for providing the intervention. Author Note: Results from this trial were a part of Sophie Bostock’s doctoral dissertation at University College London and shared at the following conferences: UK Society for Behavioural Medicine (2012), American Psychosomatic Society (2013), and the World Congress for Positive Psychology (2013).