NCT03131128

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

A Pilot Study of the Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Intervention as a Workplace Health Promotion Program on Weight Loss

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chung Shan Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Mindfulness
• Weight Loss
• Workplace
• Health Promotion

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness-based Intervention	1. Keeping mindful when selecting food. 2. Be aware of hunger and satiety by the body clues. 3. Understanding how stress affect diet and life, and learn how to cope with stress in life. 4. Learning to identify overeating caused by mood, social stress and specific food.
BEHAVIORAL	Health Education Intervention	1. Identifying improper diet patterns and attitudes 2. Understanding the impact of irrational cognition and attitudes on dietary behavior 3. Training coping skills for stresses in real life and preventing the recurrence of bulimia.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-01
• Primary completion: 2019-12-01
• Completion: 2019-12-01
• First posted: 2017-04-27
• Last updated: 2018-03-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan