Evaluación de aplicaciones de "mindfulness" con fines educativos: Desarrollo de un prototipo de "app" para adolescentes
Mindfulness in the educational context: Developing a mindfulness prototype app for teenagers
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https://doi.org/10.1344/did.2022.12.88-106Keywords:
mindfulness, Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS), ICT tools, mobile appsAbstract
Mobile applications based on mindfulness are a means that can help achieve the many psychological and physical benefits of mindfulness practices. This study aims to propose a prototype mobile mindfulness application. A systematic review of Android and iPhone mobile mindfulness applications was conducted to analyze their characteristics, quality and suitability for educational contexts using rubrics such as the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS). A search was performed both in the Android search engine "Play Store" and in the IOS search engine "Apple Store" to analyze the applications that exist today on the market. A total of 9 applications were obtained that exceed the minimum acceptability score (3.0), only three of which exceed four on average. It is concluded that there are few applications of mindfulness for secondary education, as most are for early childhood and primary education. This opens a field for improvement in this area. Based on the results obtained, the elaboration of a mindfulness app prototype is included.
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