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- Abstract:
- Obesity and depression are frequently co-morbid disorders that according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are among the leading challenges in public health. A Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 30 is defined as obesity. Obesity is known to be associated with a more severe course of depression and a slower clinical response to pharmacological and anti-depressant treatment. However, little is known about the relationship between BMI and clinical response to behavioral interventions like Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for psychiatric disorders. The purpose of this study was to characterize the relationship between patient baseline BMI and clinical response to an 8-week MBCT intervention. A secondary aim was to examine the social, physiological and psychological factors that may mediate this relationship.
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- Scholarly concentration: Integrative Medicine
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Idowu, Damilola, Lawrence, Caitlin, and Britton, Willoughby,
"Body mass index and treatment outcomes in mindfulness based cognitive therapy"
(2016).
Scholarly Concentrations Program Collection of Abstracts.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/14pr-ms90
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Scholarly Concentrations Program Collection of Abstracts
...Each spring the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Scholarly Concentrations Program (SCP) publishes a print volume of abstracts written by medical students in the SCP and their mentors that describes the research projects that they collaborated on over …