The Move Well Study

Effects of Meditative Movement on Body Composition Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Effects of Meditative Movement on Body Composition in Midlife Women

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04072133
• Other study ID #: STUDY00005974
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 27, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 14, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: June 2021
• Source: Arizona State University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will explore the effects of meditative movement on body composition in a group of 60 midlife women. Women will participate in 30-minute meditative movement (MM) classes for an eight-week period. Participants will be encouraged to practice MM at home for at least 30 minutes most days per week. Participants will be asked to complete a log of their time spent doing meditative movement outside of classes.

Description:

A growing body of published evidence indicates that meditative movement (MM) practices may be helpful for body composition improvement. Less strenuous forms of exercise that include a focus on the breath and meditative state (i.e., "meditative movement" such as Yoga, Qigong, or Tai Chi) may be easier to adopt for unfit, sedentary, overweight or obese women, which characterizes a large percentage of the general population. Despite this preliminary evidence, no studies have proposed a model for how or why weight loss might occur in MM interventions where the goals are not designated as weight loss, nutritional counseling is not included, and energy expenditure is not at the level assumed to be required to achieve weight loss. The proposed intervention is designed to refine and gather preliminary evidence for a novel "mindful-body-wisdom" model of intervening on improving body composition and to examine the contribution of model factors (psychological and behavioral) of how such a non-diet/non-vigorous exercise intervention might work, in 60 midlife women.

TCE is a simple TC/QG form that was developed by Dr. Roger Jahnke and developed into a standardized research intervention protocol by a team of researchers. It has been used in several prior projects and one recently completed NIH/NCCAM-funded randomized controlled trial (RCT) with breast cancer survivors showing reduction in fatigue and depression, and improved sleep and physical function.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 52
• Est. completion date: December 14, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 14, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 45 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female

• 45-75 years of age

• Ability to participate in low intensity activity

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women who are unable to stand for 10-minute segments (e.g., wheelchair or walker bound and too weak)

• Women who are unable to walk

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Effects of Meditative Movement on Body Composition

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Meditative Movement
Intervention will be taught by a certified Tai Chi Easy (TCE) group practice leader. The TCE movements will be repeated in differing sequences and time-frames during the course of the study. The variety and combination of the exercises will begin easy and progress to more advanced movements and/or intensities as the study progresses and participants become more experienced and comfortable with the routine. Participants spend one hour in class each week for a total of eight weeks.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Arizona State University Downtown Campus	Phoenix	Arizona

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Arizona State University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Body Fat Percentage	Body fat percentage will be measured using Bioelectric Impedance Analysis (BIA) via the Tanita monitor. Score range= 0% to 100%. A higher score indicates a higher body fat percentage.	8 weeks
Primary	Emotional Eating	Emotional eating will be measured using the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ) (21 items, 4-point Likert scale with response options 1 through 4 for items 1 through 17, response options 1 through 8 for item 18). Score range= 18 to 76. Emotional eating sub-score is calculated by combining six items of the TFEQ. A higher score indicates greater emotional eating.	8 weeks
Primary	Sleep Quality	Sleep quality will be measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) (10 items, 4-point Likert scale; 0= positive extreme of scale, 3= negative extreme of scale). Score range= 0 to 21. A higher score indicates worse sleep quality.	8 weeks
Secondary	Perceived Stress Scale-10	self-report measure of perceived stress, 10-items, Likert scale	8 weeks
Secondary	Self-Compassion Scale (SCS)	self-report measure of self-compassion as measured (26 items) by self-kindness, common humanity, non-judgment	8 weeks
Secondary	Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ)	self-report measure of experienced body awareness/iteroception, 18-items, Likert-scale	8 weeks
Secondary	Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R)	self-report measure of mindfulness, Likert-scale, 9-items	8 weeks