Clinical trial

Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children

Recruiting now · Not applicable · 1 countries · Registry ID NCT06108128

Recruiting nowNot applicableInterventional

What this study is about

Scientific knowledge of the cognitive-developmental processes that serve to support children's appetite self-regulation are surprisingly limited. This investigation will provide new scientific directions for obesity prevention by elucidating cognitive-developmental influences on young children's ability to make healthy food choices and eat in moderation.

A promising-looking record is not the same as confirmed eligibility. The study team must review the full criteria and current recruitment status.

Basic eligibility

Age4 Years to 6 Years

SexAll

Healthy volunteersAccepted

ConditionSelf-regulation, Appetitive Behavior, Eating Behavior, Child Obesity

Full registry criteria

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Child ages 4 to 6 years of age 2. Caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare 3. Caregiver legal guardian Exclusion Criteria: 1. Caregiver \<18 years of age 2. Child major food allergies 3. Child medication use, developmental disability, or medical conditions known to affect food intake and/or growth; color blindness 4. Child in foster care

Treatments and study arms

Executive functioning observational tasks

Other

Interventions take place solely at the measurement level, where children will be seen in observational tasks of general executive functioning and executive functioning around eating in which various food and non-food stimuli are presented and children's responses to task instructions are recorded.

Primary outcomes

Food choiceAssessed at 1 of 2 study visits over 2 weeks

Children's forced-choice selection of fruits, vegetables, and water over alternatives at a meal

Eating in the absence of hungerAssessed at 1 of 2 study visits over 2 weeks

Children's intake of palatable foods following a standard meal

Body mass index z-scoreAssessed at 1 of 2 study visits over 2 weeks

Age and sex specific z-score using CDC reference data

Study locations

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Temple University🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Christina Croce, MSContact

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