Mindful Eating and Active Living: Development and Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Pediatric Weight Management Intervention
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Pediatric Obesity Program, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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Children’s Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN 38103, USA
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Nutrients 2020, 12(5), 1425; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12051425
Received: 21 March 2020
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Revised: 30 April 2020
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Accepted: 8 May 2020
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Published: 14 May 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Nutritional Policies and Education for Health Promotion)
Pediatric overweight and obesity are significant individual and public health issues that require an innovative approach. While evidence suggests that intensive family-based behavioral lifestyle modification can improve weight status, practical and logistical realities limit the ability of primary healthcare providers to intervene effectively. MEALs (Multidisciplinary Engagement and Learning/Mindful Eating and Active Living) is a family-based mindfulness intervention developed to address pediatric overweight and obesity, while improving healthy lifestyle behaviors through cooking classes. The incorporation of mindfulness, a psychological strategy associated with increased awareness of internal experiences, allows for a focus on the importance of healthy eating along with safe and efficacious kitchen practices. The Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide is used to describe the intervention with the intention of providing necessary details to implement the intervention in clinical practice or replicate the intervention for further study. Lessons learned from pilot iterations of the intervention are provided.
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Keywords:
pediatric obesity; mindfulness; cooking class; group intervention; family-based
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Chicago/Turabian StyleBurton, E. T., and Webb A. Smith. 2020. "Mindful Eating and Active Living: Development and Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Pediatric Weight Management Intervention" Nutrients 12, no. 5: 1425. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12051425
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