The Effects of Mindful Eating Education on Increasing Satiety Signals

The purpose of this graduate student research study is to is to examine the effects of mindful eating education on increasing satiety signals.

Reasons for conducting the study: Add to the body of knowledge on the science of mindful eating.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Mindfulness
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: mindful education on eating

Detailed Description

The procedures include:

Visit 1:

• The subject will be asked to meet the student investigators at the Loma Linda Student Pavilion, sign an informed consent form, sign in, and provide an email address and phone number.
• After the initial briefing, the subject will be asked to eat their meal with an investigator present.
• The subject will inform the investigator verbally when they are feeling full.
• After the subject decides to end their meal, the subject will be asked to fill out a questionnaire and be reminded to bring the same meal the following week.

Visit 2:

• The subject will be asked to meet the student investigators at the Loma Linda Student Pavilion with the same meal as the previous week.
• After receiving a brief education session, the subject will be asked to eat their meal with an investigator present.
• The subject must inform the investigator verbally when they are feeling full.
• After the subject has decided to end their meal, they will be asked to fill out a questionnaire and be reminded to meet the investigator at the same time the following week.

Visit 3:

• The subject will be asked to meet the student investigators at the Loma Linda Student Pavilion.
• The subject will be asked to complete a follow-up survey on the study.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 25
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Loma Linda, California, United States, 92350
      • Loma Linda Universtiy

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 30 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• currently enrolled at Loma Linda University
• pack or purchase their own lunch on a regular basis (willingness bring/buy the same lunch the following week)
• have a 1 hour or less lunch period.

Exclusion Criteria:

• skip breakfast
• have exercised within 2 hours of their lunch time
• smoke nicotine or marijuana
• have the condition of Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
• have newly prescribed medications 2 weeks prior to testing.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: no mindful eating education; Subject will be asked to eat their meal with an investigator present.; They will inform the investigator verbally when they are feeling full.; After they have decided to end their meal, they will be asked to fill out a questionnaire
Experimental: mindful eating education; After receiving a brief education session on mindful eating, subject will be asked to eat their meal with an investigator present.; They will inform the investigator verbally when they are feeling full.; After they have decided to end their meal, they will be asked to fill out a questionnaire	Other: mindful education on eating; Mindful eating education material: mindful eating handout by move.va.gov. It includes topics such as: observe your body, do not judge yourself, notice your reaction to food and savor your food.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in satiety	The subject will be asked to verbally inform the investigator when they feel full. The investigator will be using a stopwatch to record when the subject has reached satiety.	change from baseline to one week

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Loma Linda University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Georgia Hodgkin, EdD, Loma Linda University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 1, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 31, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): May 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 7, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 19, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): June 29, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 9, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 5, 2019
• Last Verified: September 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 5180174

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No