Mindful Eating and Mental Well-Being in Karachi, A Metropolitan City · 2019. 4. 17. · Results...

MindfulEatingandMentalWell-Beingin

Karachi,AMetropolitanCity

Zaynah Khan&Zainab F.Zadeh

I n t roduc t i on

MINDFULNESS:“anopen-hearted,moment-to-moment,non-

judgmentalawareness”(Kabat-Zinn,2005)

MINDFULEATING:“…beingawareinthepresentmomentwhenoneiseating;payingcloseattentiontothesenses,includingphysicalandemotionalsensations.”

(Albers,2008)

I n t roduc t i on

(Moor,Scott,&McIntosh,2012)

MENTALWELL-BEING:“Astatewhichallowsindividuals torealise theirabilities,copewiththenormalstressesoflife,workproductivelyandfruitfully,andmakea

contributiontotheircommunity”(WHO,2004)

Well-beinginKarachi,Pakistan

Sohail &Chaudhry (2004)

THEACTIVECITIZENSPROJECT

#SMILEPAKISTANCHALLENGE

#SMILEPAKISTANCHALLENGE

#SMILEPAKISTANCHALLENGE

THEPAKISTANICULTURE

• Foodetiquette• Senseofcommunity• Gratitude• Positivepsychologyingrainedinthecultureduetovariousreasons

• Verylessworkonnon-clinicalpopulation• Spillover-effect• Greaterqualityoflife• Positiveinterventions

HYPOTHES I S

Higherlevelsofmindfuleatingwillbesignificantlypositivelycorrelatedwithhigher

levelsofmentalwell-being

Participants

OnlineSurveymethod

Materials

TheMindfulEatingQuestionnaire(Framson etal.2009)28items– 5subdomainsdisinhibition,awareness,externalcues,emotionalresponse,anddistraction.validmeasurewithadequateconstructvalidityandreliability(Cronbach’s alphavalue=0.64).Subscalescoresalsohadgoodinternalconsistencyreliability:disinhibition (0.83),awareness(0.74),externalcues(0.70),emotionalresponse(0.71),anddistraction(0.64).

Materials

• TheWarwick-EdinburghMentalWell-beingScale(Tennantetal.,2007)14items-psychologicalfunctioning(psychologicalwell-being),affectiveandcognitive-evaluativeelements- 5-pointscales.Mediumtohighcontentandcriterionvalidity,andhightest–retest(0.83)andinternalconsistencyreliabilitywithaCronbach’s alphascoreof0.91.

P roc edu re

• PermissiontouseMEQandWEMWBS• OnlineSurveytool- ‘SurveyMonkey’• Informedconsent• Confidentiality• Thankyounoteandcontactdetails

Re su l t s

CorrelationbetweenMindfulEatingandMentalWell-being

.291(p<0.01)

Re su l t sTableCorrelationsbetweenMindfulEatingSub-domainsandMentalWell-being

ThetableshowsthePearsoncorrelationvaluethatexistsbetweenthesubdomainsofmindfuleatingandmentalwell-being(N=309).Correlationsweresignificantforallsubdomainsexceptthe‘ExternalCues’subdomain.

Discussion

OverallMindfulEatingScore

MentalWell-BeingScorer=.291

p<.05

Discussion

Awareness Subscale(r=.221,p<0.05)

• Anchoringselftothepresentthroughmindfuleatingprinciples

• Nonreactiveattentionresultinginacceptance• Kirby(2012)

Dis inhibit ion Subscale(r=.208,p<0.05)

• Self-regulationandproactivecoping(Aspinwall andTaylor,1997)

• Mindfulnessmaypredictself-regulatedbehaviorandpositiveemotionalstates(BrownandRyan,2003)

EmotionalResponseSubscale

(r=.189,p<0.05)• Mindfulnesspositivelycorrelatedwithrationalcoping(Palmer&Rodger,2009)

Distract ionSubscale(r=.105,p<0.05)

• Payingattentiontothepresenthasshowntohaveapositiveimpactonwell-being.(Kirby,2012)

• ChangingCulture

ExternalCues Subscale(r=-.063,p<0.136)

• CulturalReasons?• Over th ink ingandanalys is leads to lowerlevels of mentalwell-being

StrengthofCorrelation

Mindfulnesstoescapismorrumination(DelMonte,2011)

Implications

• Bettermentofqualityoflife

- Feedbackafterquestionnaires

• Encouragesfurtherresearch

• Clinicalsettings

Limitations&Recommendations

• Cannotinfercausality

• Difficulttogeneralize

• Lowerresponserate

• Cross-culturalvalidityofscales

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