Feasibility and preliminary effects of the mindful healthy family project among rural families.

ABSTRACT:

Background/purpose

Rural adults and children are at higher risk for overweight and obesity. However, there are relatively few lifestyle modification programs available for these high-risk families, mainly because of the difficulty in reaching them. This mindfulness-based motivational interviewing (MM-based-MI) pilot aimed to improve parents' healthy eating index (HEI), collective family efficacy, family satisfaction, perceived stress, and depressive symptoms as well as parent-child dyads' eating patterns, physical activity (PA), and body mass index (BMI).

Methods

This randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted in the Midwestern US to examine the feasibility (enrollment, attendance, and attrition), acceptability, and preliminary effects of an MM-based-MI intervention tha

SUBMITTER: Kao TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11703050 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature