Influence of Priming on Goal-directed and Cue-dependent Behavior

Eating Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Influence of Priming on Goal-directed and Cue-dependent Behavior

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03255304
• Other study ID #: PIT_prime
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: November 2019
• Source: University Hospital Tuebingen
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The current proposal aims to investigate implicit and explicit priming paradigms for changing cue-dependent and goal-directed nutritional behavior.

Description:

Food choice and intake is a daily and throughout normal subject. However, for more and more people eating habits and the question of food choice are of increasing interest and in several cases even a problem. The prevalence of obesity has tripled in the last decades and it is even spoken of an obesity epidemic. Life style interventions to lose weight often fail on the long run, also because people fall back into former unhealthy eating habits. Various factors influence our daily food choice, not all of which are apparent to ourselves. Thus, food choice might be goal-directed and therefore conscious and reflective, yet in other circumstances the choice to eat something specific might be based on cue dependent processes which are automatic and thus difficult to control. Since a change in eating-behavior and long-lasting weight loss is most problematic to achieve, the current proposal aims to investigate implicit and explicit priming paradigms for changing cue-dependent and goal-directed nutritional behavior.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 222
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 50 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• healthy volunteers

Exclusion Criteria:

• currently dieting

• intolerance to provided food

• cognitive impairment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Eating Behavior
• Habits

Intervention

Behavioral:
• health mindest
groups be confronted with health aspects of food items
• palatability mindset
groups be confronted with palatability aspects of food items

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	University of Tübingen	Tübingen

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital Tuebingen

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	behavior	change in food choice within a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task (duration of complete protocol about 45 minutes, including priming (5 minutes) and pre and post measurements)	pre and post priming (directly before and directly after a 5 minutes priming paradigm)