The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Intervention as a Workplace Health Promotion Program on Weight Loss

Chung Shan Medical University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Weight Loss; Health Promotion; Mindfulness; Workplace

Treatments: Behavioral: Health Education Intervention; Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03131128

ChungShanMU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study will carry out a workplace health promotion via MBI with lessons of dietary behavior to help overweight or obese workers to loss weight.

Full description

The study will adopt a longitudinal research design with randomized quasi- experimental trial. The workers with overweight or obesity (BMI≧24) provided by the company will be randomly assigned to Group A (four lessons of dietary behavior and six lessons of MBI) or Group B (four lessons of dietary behavior and six lessons of mental health). There will be 100 participants in each group. Data will be collected five times. The research questionnaire includes basic information (including BMI, waist circumference, etc), Perceived Stress Scale, The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Food Cravings Questionnaire, the scale of physical activity and information regarding dietary behavior.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. adults aged 20 to 65 years old;
2. full-time workers with BMI ≧ 24;
3. motivated to participate in the study;

Exclusion criteria

1. suffering from mental illness or in an acute episode;
2. suffering from life threatening or other major physical illness;
3. no motivation to participate in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness-based Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

2 sessions of diet nutrition education and 6 sessions of Mindfulness-based intervention, 1.5 hours each session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Intervention

Health Education Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

2 sessions of diet nutrition education and 6 sessions of Health Education, 1.5 hours each session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health Education Intervention