Mindfulness and Sustainable Food Choices.

University of Turin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sustainable Dietary Preferences; Mindful Eating Intervention

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Intervention; Other: Nutritional Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07512440

MindFood

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomized controlled clinical trial is to determine whether a mindfulness-based intervention, in addition to nutritional education, improves healthy and sustainable eating habits in 53 young adults aged 18 to 35 years with low adherence to a sustainable diet.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18 to 35 years;
• Low adherence to a sustainable diet, defined as a MedQ-Sus score ≤ 3.0;
• Body mass index (BMI) between 18.0 and 29.9 kg/m²;
• Able to provide written informed consent;
• Generally healthy volunteers;
• Omnivorous diet;
• No current or past history of eating disorders;
• Not pregnant and not planning pregnancy during the study period;
• Personally responsible for making food-related decisions.

Exclusion criteria

• MedQ-Sus score ≥ 3.1;
• BMI < 18.0 or > 29.9 kg/m²;
• Unable to provide informed consent;
• Dietary restrictions;
• Allergy or intolerance to the tested food.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness + Nutritional Education

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the experimental group will attend two 1-hour online nutritional education sessions delivered over two consecutive weeks. In addition, they will participate in a structured online mindfulness program consisting of four 2-hour sessions delivered once weekly for four weeks. Dietary habits, anthropometric measures, and psychological variables will be assessed at baseline and upon completion of the intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Nutritional Education

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Intervention

Nutritional Education

Other group

Description:

Participants in the control group will attend two 1-hour online nutritional education sessions delivered over two separate weeks. The sessions are based on the EAT-Lancet dietary recommendations for healthy and sustainable eating. Dietary habits, anthropometric measures, and psychological variables will be assessed at baseline and upon completion of the intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Nutritional Education