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Wellmind Health is a British online healthcare company that provides mindfulness and medication-free pain-management solutions. The company was founded in Brighton by Richard Latham and Will Mulder, who connected their backgrounds in web design with their efforts to improve their own mental health. The company launched its two digital courses, Be Mindful and Pathway through Pain, in 2011.

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Wellmind Health’s two Pathways, Be Mindful Online and Pathway through Pain, are available to individuals, provided to staff by employers, and offered to patients via the NHS. The two fully online courses are accessed via their dedicated web-based platforms which are web-app compatible with all devices.

Be Mindful
Be Mindful was designed as a digital course to improve mental wellbeing, reduce depression, anxiety and stress, or low mood. Qualified mindfulness teachers guide and motivate participants along the Pathway. Be Mindful was developed with the approval of the pioneers of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and is the only fully online MBCT course.

Course completers were found to have significant and maintained reductions in depression, stress and anxiety. Additionally, those that have undertaken the course reported significantly lower levels of work-related rumination and fatigue and significantly higher levels of sleep quality, with effects maintained at 3- and 6-moth follow-ups with medium to large effect sizes.

Participation in Be Mindful significantly reduced perceived stress upon completion and remained stable at follow-up, with pre-post effect size equivalent to levels found in other class-based mindfulness programmes.

Further research reported that perceived stress, anxiety and depression significantly decreased at completion of the Be Mindful course and further decreased at 1-month follow-up.

Pathway through Pain
Pathway through Pain was designed as digital course to help sufferers improve their self-management of chronic/persistent musculoskeletal pain. Instructional videos are delivered by a multi-disciplinary team that guides participants along the Pathway which provides all the elements of an intensive Pain Management Programme (PMP).

Patients who completed the course made significant improvements across a number of outcome measures including level of disability, mood, confidence managing pain, problems in life due to pain and level of pain, with one-third making reliable changes in levels of depression and anxiety.