Youths may benefit from self-regulation interventions

Sixty-six percent of curriculum-based, exercise-based, mindfulness and yoga, social and personal skills, and family-based interventions were associated with consistent self-regulation improvements in children and teens, UK researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics. The findings, based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of 49 studies involving 23,098 youths ages 2 to 17, also showed that most intervention groups had better academic, behavioral and health outcomes, compared with controls.

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