Engaging Motivation for the Prevention of Weight Regain

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a 12 week Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Maintenance (MBWLM) intervention is effective in maintaining recent loss of 10% or more of initial body weight.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness Based Weight Loss Maintenance (MBWLM)

This mindfulness-meditation based intervention is designed to increase awareness of the factors that affect weight loss maintenance after successful weight loss. Mindfulness meditation is a technique for training awareness. The program will train subjects to increase awareness of the somatic, cognitive, affective, interpersonal and environmental factors that mediate eating and physical activity by incorporating empirically-supported and theoretically-synergized components, including: general mindfulness meditation skills, mindful and intuitive eating, appetite-satiety awareness, mindful movement and yoga, a mindful approach to exercise engagement, and training in enhancing emotion regulation and stress management skills. In addition, the MBWLM group will be supported by Maintenance Partners who are trained as Integrative Health Coaches.

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral: Standard Behavioral Weight-Loss Maintenence

Attention/Education/Support Control group, designed to control for educational content as well as nonspecific treatment factors \[e.g., natural history (time), amount of time and energy spent in the intervention, attention by group leaders, social support, as well as information \& education\]. Like the experimental group(MBWLM), this group meet once a week for 2 hours during the 12-week intervention, and then at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 12 weeks post the 12 week intervention. Participants also receive the same amount of telephonic support through Maintenance Partners as the experimental group, but their Maintenance Partners employed empathic listening only rather than myriad coaching techniques.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pennsylvania

  collaborator OTHER

• National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

  collaborator NIH

• Duke University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Ruth Q Wolever, PhD · Duke University

• Michael Baime, M.D · University of PENN, Program for Stress Management

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2007-07-31

Primary Completion

2009-07-31

Completion

2010-06-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations