Trial reportPloS one2015
Association between Mindfulness and Weight Status in a General Population from the NutriNet-Santé Study.
Trial report in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02893150 (Mindfulness as a Complementary Intervention for Overweight Primary Care Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Mindfulness as a Complementary Intervention for Overweight Primary Care Patients: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Correlates of FFMQ Mindfulness Facets.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Lifestyle Intervention for Sustained Remission of Metabolic Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2026Trial
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Women with Overweight or Obesity: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2017Trial
- Maternal Mindfulness Is Associated With Lower Child Body Mass Index Z Score.Academic pediatricsTrial
- Exploring differences in mindfulness and mindful eating between adults with varying weight status.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of Mindful Eating Scale in Chinese adults: a translation and validation study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Study protocol on effectiveness of a holistic lifestyle intervention using eHealth system for older adults with metabolic syndrome and psychosomatic symptoms: a randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Mindful Eating Behavior Scale.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Mindfulness is associated with the weight status, severity of disease, and severity of extra-intestinal symptoms among individuals with irritable bowel syndrome.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Mediating Effects of Self-Acceptance and Self-Evaluation on Mindfulness and Benefit -Finding in a Sample of Chinese Systemic Lupus Erythematous Patients.Patient preference and adherence · 2025Article
- Significantly different roles of economic affluence in sex-specific obesity prevalence rates: understanding more modifications within female body weight management.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Lasting increases in trait mindfulness after psilocybin correlate positively with the mystical-type experience in healthy individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Mindfulness affects stress, ghrelin, and BMI of obese children: a clinical trial.Endocrine connections · 2020Article
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- Development of a lifestyle intervention for the metabolic syndrome: Discovery through proof-of-concept.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
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- Mindfulness Approaches and Weight Loss, Weight Maintenance, and Weight Regain.Current obesity reports · 2018Review
- Mindfulness Is Associated with the Metabolic Syndrome among Individuals with a Depressive Symptomatology.Nutrients · 2018Observational
- Editorial: Mindfulness and Eating Behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Direct Experience While Eating in a Sample With Eating Disorders and Obesity.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundMindfulness is defined as non-judgmental awareness of the present moment. There is some evidence of the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in weight loss. However, this psychological concept has only been rarely explored in observational studies, and no study to date has examined the association between dispositional mindfulness and weight status in a large population-based sample.
objectiveWe aimed to examine the relationship between mindfulness scores and weight status in a large sample of the adult general population in France. DESIGN AND
methodsA total of 14,400 men and 49,228 women aged ≥18 y participating in the NutriNet-Santé study were included in this cross-sectional analysis. We collected mindfulness data using the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire as well as self-reported weight and height. The association between weight status and dispositional mindfulness, as well as its subscales (observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging and non-reactivity), was assessed using multinomial logistic regression models adjusted for socio-demographic and lifestyle factors.
resultsWomen with higher dispositional mindfulness scores were less likely to be overweight (excluding obesity) (OR quartile 4 vs. 1 = 0.84, 95% CI: 0.79-0.90) and obese (OR quartile 4 vs. 1 = 0.71, 95% CI: 0.65-0.78). In addition, overall, in this group, all subscales were inversely associated with weight status, with the strongest association found for the "observing" subscale. In men, higher mindfulness was associated only with lower odds of obesity (OR quartile 4 vs. 1 = 0.81 (0.69, 0.96)), and only the "observing" and "non-reactivity" subscales were significantly inversely associated with weight status.
conclusionResults support the interest of a shift in perspective that takes into account positive psychological and cognitive factors such as dispositional mindfulness in the investigation of obesity and its associated factors.
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