Mind-Body Medicine Training for Incarcerated Men and Women

Mind-Body Medicine Training for Incarcerated Men and Women

The goal of this study is to learn about how effective a Mind-Body Medicine Training Program is for prisoners. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Does the training program increase resilience?
2. Does the training program reduce depression, anxiety, and/or stress?
3. Does the training program increase optimism?
4. Does the training program increase prisoners' belief that they can have better coping skills?
5. Does the training program increase a sense of meaning in life?
6. Does the training program increase a sense of life purpose?

Participants will attend a 2-part mind-body medicine training program (4 days for each part) and will fill out questionnaires before the training, after the training and 6 months after the training. They will also participate in group interviews after the training and 6 months after the training.

Inclusion Criteria:

• The inclusion criteria for this study will be English-speaking incarcerated individuals at the Indiana Women's Prison and and at the Plainfield Correctional Facility.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Having any of the following before the study is completed:

1. a sentence that will end,
2. a scheduled change in security level to a minimum-security prison or,
3. a scheduled work release;

Or 2. Having conduct problems and/or emotional or mental instability that prevents safe and effective participation in the mind-body medicine training program