Craving and Lifestyle Management Through Mindfulness Study

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindful eating program will lead to reductions in abdominal fat and total weight and improve cell aging in overweight and obese women compared to a waitlist control group.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01250509

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

53

Starts

2006-11-01

Expected to finish

2008-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-02-18

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 50. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Pre-menopausal
• BMI (25 - 40)
• Weight < 300 lbs.
• Negative urine glucose test

You may not qualify if…

• Inability to provide informed consent
• Age < 21 or menopausal as determined by self-report
• DSM-IV diagnosis of an eating disorder
• Any substance abuse, mental health, or medical condition that, in the opinion of investigators, will make it difficult for the potential participant to participate in the intervention
• Factors that confound relations between stress and eating, including, drug abuse and use of medications containing corticosteroids.
• Diabetes
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• CHD
• Breastfeeding (due to interference with stress hormone measurement)
• Non English speaker
• Pregnant as determined by pregnancy test at screening visit or planning to get pregnant in the next 6 months
• Previous MBSR training and/or current meditation, yoga, or other mind-body practice
• Initiation of new class of psychiatric medications in past 2 months.
• Currently on a weight loss diet

Where it is running

• UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine — San Francisco, California, United States

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