NCT01974102

Family Based Mindfulness Intervention

Preventing Childhood Obesity Through a Family-Based Mindfulness Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of the proposed interdisciplinary study is to assess feasibility of recruiting a pilot sample of parents of toddlers and engaging them in a pilot study to test a version of mindfulness-based intervention for parenting stress reduction (PMH), an empirically-supported stress-reduction intervention, plus nutrition and physical activity counseling for parents of preschoolers (aged 2-5); to reduce parent (and child) stress levels; improve parenting; promote healthy eating and physical activity in parent and child; and prevent overweight and obesity in preschoolers with an obese parent.

Detailed description

This project was a preliminary feasibility and pilot efficacy study to assess stressed low income parents of toddlers who were obese to assess whether a mindfulness based parenting intervention (PMH) can reduce their stress, increase parenting and improve family healthy food and physical activity choices. Parents and toddlers also participated in a Toy Wait Task, a behavioral assay of parenting.The empirically-supported stress-reduction intervention, plus nutrition and physical activity counseling (Control) for parents of preschoolers (aged 2-5) was compared to a nutrition and physical activity counseling alone condition to assess whether PMH improved toddler weight, physical activity and parent emotion regulation and healthy eating.

Conditions

• Parental Stress
• Parent and Child Stress
• Parental and Child Obesity
• Child Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Lifestyle counseling	Active control group will receive weekly session for viewing relaxing video and discussion plus nutritional and physical activity counseling for 8 weeks.
BEHAVIORAL	Parenting Mindfully for Health (PMH)	Active participants will receive 8 weeks of mindfulness based parenting stress reduction (PMH) plus nutritional and physical activity counseling for 8 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2015-10-01
• Completion: 2015-10-01
• First posted: 2013-11-01
• Last updated: 2021-04-06
• Results posted: 2021-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States