Remembered Meal Satisfaction, Satiety and Later Snack Food Intake

Overweight and Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Remembered Meal Satisfaction, Satiety and Later Snack Food Intake: A Laboratory Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03750019
• Other study ID #: RETH000955
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 7, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 8, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: November 2018
• Source: University of Liverpool
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study examined whether remembered meal satisfaction (encompassing memory for meal liking and satiety) can be manipulated in the laboratory and whether this influences later food intake.

Description:

This study examined whether remembered meal satisfaction (encompassing memory for meal liking and satiety) can be manipulated in the laboratory and whether this influences later food intake. In a between-subjects design participants consumed a fixed lunch and then rehearsed the satisfying or dissatisfying aspects of the meal, or a neutral experience (control), in order to manipulate memory for meal satisfaction. Three hours later, in a second visit to the laboratory, participants completed a bogus taste-test to measure food intake and meal memory measures.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 146
• Est. completion date: December 8, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 8, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Fluent English

• Not taking medication that affects appetite

• No known history of food allergies or disordered eating

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Overweight
• Overweight and Obesity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Satisfying rehearsal task
Participants rehearsed satisfying aspects of the lunchtime meal they just ate.
• Dissatisfying rehearsal task
Participants rehearsed dissatisfying aspects of the lunchtime meal they just ate.
• Neutral rehearsal
Participants rehearsed their journey to campus that day.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	University of Liverpool	Liverpool

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Liverpool

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Hunger before lunch	Hunger before lunch was measured via a single question asking 'How hungry do you feel right now?'. Responses were measured via a 100-point visual analogue scale with anchors 'not at all' and 'extremely'. No directional hypothesis was made for this outcome.	Measured before lunch (during baseline visit)
Other	Hunger after lunch	Hunger before lunch was measured via a single question asking 'How hungry do you feel right now?'. Responses were measured via a 100-point visual analogue scale with anchors 'not at all' and 'extremely'. No directional hypothesis was made for this outcome.	Measured after lunch (during baseline visit)
Other	Hunger before the bogus taste-test	Hunger before lunch was measured via a single question asking 'How hungry do you feel right now?'. Responses were measured via a 100-point visual analogue scale with anchors 'not at all' and 'extremely'. No directional hypothesis was made for this outcome.	Measured before the bogus taste-test (in second visit that took place 3 hours after the baseline visit)
Other	Hunger after the bogus taste-test	Hunger before lunch was measured via a single question asking 'How hungry do you feel right now?'. Responses were measured via a 100-point visual analogue scale with anchors 'not at all' and 'extremely'. No directional hypothesis was made for this outcome.	Measured after the bogus taste-test (in second visit that took place 3 hours after the baseline visit)
Primary	Ad libitum snack intake	Energy intake (kcal) measured from a bogus taste-test task. Lower intake in those in the satisfying rehearsal condition compared to the control condition and greater intake in the dissatisfying rehearsal condition compared to the control condition were expected.	Measured during second visit that took place 3 hours after the baseline visit
Secondary	Memory for general satisfaction	Memory for general satisfaction with the lunchtime meal was measured via five questions: 'Overall, how satisfying did you find the lunchtime meal?', 'Overall, how dissatisfying did you find the lunchtime meal?', 'I liked the lunchtime meal', 'How satisfied were you with the taste of the lunchtime meal?' and 'How dissatisfied were you with the taste of the lunchtime meal?'. Responses were measured using 100-point visual analogue scales with anchors 'not at all' and 'extremely' (0-100). A higher score in those in the satisfying rehearsal condition compared to the control condition and a lower score in the dissatisfying rehearsal condition compared to the control condition were expected.	Measured during second visit that took place 3 hours after the baseline visit
Secondary	Memory for satisfaction with meal satiety	Memory for general satisfaction with the lunchtime meal was measured via two questions: 'How satisfied were you with how filling the lunchtime meal was?' and 'How dissatisfied were you with how filling the lunchtime meal was?'. Responses were measured using 100-point visual analogue scales with anchors 'not at all' and 'extremely' (0-100). A higher score in those in the satisfying rehearsal condition compared to the control condition and a lower score in the dissatisfying rehearsal condition compared to the control condition were expected.	Measured during second visit that took place 3 hours after the baseline visit