Peer Interactions and Food Are Substitutable in Youth

Caloric Intake Clinical Trial

Official title:

Peer Interactions and Food Are Substitutable in Youth

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00875121
• Other study ID #: DB#2220
• Secondary ID: 1RO1HD057190-01A
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 2, 2009
• Last updated: May 11, 2009
• Start date: October 2007
• Est. completion date: December 2008

Study information

• Verified date: April 2009
• Source: University at Buffalo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study examines the effects of increasing the cost of social interactions and food on overweight and non-overweight youth. Using a computerized operant task youth will earn points exchangeable for food and social activity.

The investigators predict that both overweight and non-overweight children will substitute food for interactions with an unfamiliar peer when this alternative is made expensive. Also, the investigators predict that both overweight and lean participants will defend their choice to spend time with a friend even when this alternative is made expensive.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: December 2008
• Est. primary completion date: December 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 9 Years to 11 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Boys and girls ages 9-11

• Children must have a BMI equal to or greater than 15th percentile for their age

• Children must report at least a moderate liking of the study foods

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children should not have any food allergies

• Children should not have any dietary restraint

• Children should not a cold or upper respiratory distress

• Children should not have any psychopathology

• Children should not have any developmental disabilities

• Children should not be taking any medications that could influence their sense of smell and taste and activity level

Study Design

N/A

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Activity Choices
• Caloric Intake
• Social Time

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University at Buffalo, Division of Behavioral Medicine	Buffalo	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University at Buffalo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Caloric Intake			No
Primary	Social Time			No