The mindful moms training: development of a mindfulness-based intervention to reduce stress and overeating during pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pregnancy is a time of high risk for excessive weight gain, leading to health-related consequences for mothers and offspring. Theory-based obesity interventions that target proposed mechanisms of biobehavioral change are needed, in addition to simply providing nutritional and weight gain directives. Mindfulness training is hypothesized to reduce stress and non-homeostatic eating behaviors - or eating for reasons other than hunger or caloric need. We developed a mindfulness-based intervention for high-risk, low-income overweight pregnant women over a series of iterative waves using the Obesity-Related Behavioral Intervention Trials (ORBIT) model of intervention development, and tested its effects on stress and eating behaviors.

Methods

Overweight pregnant women (n 

SUBMITTER: Vieten C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984812 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature