Evaluating Digital Meditation on Stress, Cravings, and Adiposity

We aimed to test the effects of a digital meditation intervention vs. an active or wait list control, on subjective measures of perceived stress, food cravings, and adiposity in a sample of employees at a large university with overweight and obesity who reported mild to moderate stress (NCT03945214). We randomized participants to 8-weeks of a digital meditation intervention (using the commercially available application, Headspace), a healthy eating intervention (active control), a digital meditation + healthy eating intervention, or a waitlist control condition. We asked all participants to complete questionnaires and anthropomorphic measurements at an in-person clinic visit at baseline and week 8. Adherence to the digital meditation intervention was tracked remotely by Headspace.