Negative Mood and Food Craving Strength Among Women with Overweight: Implications for Targeting Mechanisms Using a Mindful Eating Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

When experiencing negative mood, people often eat to improve their mood. A learned association between mood and eating may cultivate frequent food cravings, detracting from health goals. Training in mindful eating may target this cycle of emotion-craving-eating by teaching individuals to manage urges when experiencing negative mood. We examined the impact of a mobile mindful eating intervention on the link between negative mood and food cravings among overweight women.

Methods

In a single-arm trial, participants (n = 64, M age = 46.1 years, M BMI = 31.5 kg/m²) completed ecological momentary assessments of negative mood and food cravings 3 times/day for 3 days pre- and post-intervention, as well as 1-month post-intervention. Using mu

SUBMITTER: Sagui-Henson SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8460847 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature