Mindful Bites: Eating in the Present Moment

Marco D'Addario

Status: Completed

Conditions: Listening to a Mindful Eating Podcast With Theory and Practice; Listening to a Theoretical Mindful Eating Podcast; Listening to a Podcast on Food Education

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindful Eating Education; Behavioral: Mindful Eating Practice; Behavioral: Mindful Eating Theory

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07605104

PE00000003 (CUP D93C22000890001;Other Grant/Funding Number)

RM-2025-974

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a mindful eating intervention focused on listening to podcast. The intervention is delivered via mobile application in a sample drawn from the healthy adult population.

Full description

This study investigates the short-term effects of a two-week app-based mindful eating intervention delivered through MyPocketHealth. The intervention is designed to promote greater awareness of eating experiences, including sensory perception, emotional states, and behavioral patterns related to food consumption. Participants receive daily training exercises and short audio modules tailored to the principles of mindfulness applied to eating.

Throughout the 14-day program, participants complete daily momentary assessments assessing mood, attention, and eating-related awareness. Additional pre- and post-intervention questionnaires evaluate psychological well-being (WHO-5), cognitive failures (CFQ), eating behavior styles (DEBQ), and mindful eating skills (MEQ). Dietary habits, intake of specific food groups and dispositional mindfulness are also assessed to explore possible changes associated with the intervention.

The primary aim of the study is to evaluate changes in psychological well-being and mindful eating from baseline to the end of the intervention. Secondary aims include assessing changes in cognitive functioning, eating behavior patterns, and day-to-day fluctuations in mood and attentional engagement with the training materials. Group differences are explored across three experimental conditions, which vary in the level of content emphasis. Group 1 listens to general food-related podcast (MEE), group 2 listens to a podcast discussing theoretical information about mindful eating (MET), while group 3 listens to a podcast that, besides theoretical information, also offers daily practices (MEP).

Enrollment: 666 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• owning a smartphone

Exclusion criteria

• presence of diagnosed eating disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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666 participants in 3 patient groups

Mindful Eating Practice

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive notifications focused on experiential mindful eating components, including awareness of the five senses and interoceptive skills. They also complete specific guided exercises designed to cultivate these abilities.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindful Eating Practice

Mindful Eating Theory

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive notifications focused exclusively on the theoretical aspects of mindful eating, without the experiential exercises included in the practice condition.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindful Eating Theory

Mindful Eating Education

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive notifications promoting evidence-based healthy eating practices, such as adequate water intake and reduced consumption of refined foods, based on findings from authoritative scientific research.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindful Eating Education