Predictors of Mindfulness Meditation and Exercise Practice, from MEPARI-2, a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Health-supporting behaviors can be challenging to initiate and maintain. Data from the MEPARI-2 randomized trial were used to assess predictors of sustained exercise and meditation practice.

Methods

Adults aged 30 to 69 years not exercising regularly and without prior meditation training were randomized to 8-week trainings in mindfulness meditation, moderate intensity exercise, or observational control, and monitored for 8 months. Exercise participants reported day-to-day minutes of moderate and vigorous activity; mindfulness meditation participants reported minutes of informal and formal practice. Demographic characteristics and psychosocial factors were assessed as predictors of practice. Growth mixture modeling was used to identify higher and lower practice sub

SUBMITTER: Barrett B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6959135 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature