Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age4-6
SponsorTemple University
About this trial
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.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Child ages 4 to 6 years of age
Caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare
Caregiver legal guardian
Disqualifiers
Caregiver <18 years of age
Child major food allergies
Child medication use, developmental disability, or medical conditions known to affect food intake and/or growth; color blindness
Child in foster care
Trial design
Design model
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
Executive functioning observational tasks
Other interventionInterventions 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.
Treatment groups
No treatment groups listed
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Food choice
Children's forced-choice selection of fruits, vegetables, and water over alternatives at a meal
Time frame
Assessed at 1 of 2 study visits over 2 weeks2
Eating in the absence of hunger
Children's intake of palatable foods following a standard meal
Time frame
Assessed at 1 of 2 study visits over 2 weeks3
Body mass index z-score
Age and sex specific z-score using CDC reference data
Time frame
Assessed at 1 of 2 study visits over 2 weeksSponsors and contacts
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Temple University
Lead sponsor
Baylor College of Medicine
Collaborator
University of Nevada, Reno
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov