ArticlePreventive medicine reports2018
Integrating mindfulness training in school health education to promote healthy behaviors in adolescents: Feasibility and preliminary effects on exercise and dietary habits.
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- Mindfulness-based interventions for improvement of lifestyle behaviors and body mass index in children with overweight or obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Using Health Education to Address Student Physical Activity and Nutrition: Evidence and Implications to Advance Practice.The Journal of school health · 2023Pooled it
- Beneficial Effects of School-based Mindfulness Training On Impulsivity in Healthy Adolescents: Results From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Explore (New York, N.Y.)Trial
- Mindfulness-based interventions and their relationships with body image and eating behavior in adolescents: a scoping review.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
- A Mindfulness-Based Lifestyle Intervention Among Economically Marginalized Caregiver-Preschooler Dyads: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Satisfaction.School mental health · 2025Article
- Research progress on the role of mindfulness in intervention for adolescent obesity.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- Development of an Online Mind-Body Physical Activity Intervention for Young Adults during COVID-19: A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Universal Mindfulness Training in Schools for Adolescents: a Scoping Review and Conceptual Model of Moderators, Mediators, and Implementation Factors.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
- Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a school-based health and well-being program for adolescent girls.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Review of Mindfulness-Related Interventions to Modify Eating Behaviors in Adolescents.Nutrients · 2019Review
- The feasibility of a theory-based self-regulation intervention in schools to increase older adolescents' leisure time physical activity behavior.AIMS public health · 2018Article
- Tai Chi practice and change in exercise habits in survivors of acute coronary syndromes: Is mindfulness a possible mechanism?Explore (New York, N.Y.)Article
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Abstract
Whether mindfulness training (MT) could improve healthy behaviors is unknown. This study sought to determine feasibility and acceptability of integrating MT into school-based health education (primary outcomes) and to explore its possible effects on healthy behaviors (exploratory outcomes). Two high schools in Massachusetts (2014-2015) were randomized to health education plus MT (HE-MT) (one session/week for 8 weeks) or to health education plus attention control (HE-AC). Dietary habits (24-h dietary recalls) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA/7-day recalls) were assessed at baseline, end of treatment (EOT), and 6 months thereafter. Quantile regression and linear mixed models were used, respectively, to estimate effects on MVPA and dietary outcomes adjusting for confounders. We recruited 53 9th graders (30 HEM, 23 HEAC; average age 14.5, 60% white, 59% female). Retention was 100% (EOT) and 96% (6 months); attendance was 96% (both conditions), with moderate-to-high satisfaction ratings. Among students with higher MVPA at baseline, MVPA was higher in HE-MT vs. HE-AC at both EOT (median difference = 81 min/week,
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