Pediatric Obesity Clinical Trial
— RO1Official title:
Brain Mechanisms of Overeating in Children
NCT number | NCT03341247 |
Other study ID # | RO1 Study |
Secondary ID | |
Status | Completed |
Phase | |
First received | |
Last updated | |
Start date | January 31, 2018 |
Est. completion date | June 20, 2023 |
Verified date | December 2023 |
Source | Penn State University |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Observational |
The proposed research will follow healthy weight children who vary by family risk for obesity to identify the neurobiological and appetitive traits that are implicated in overeating and weight gain during the critical pre-adolescent period. The investigator's central hypothesis is that increased intake from large portions of energy dense foods is due in part to reduced activity in brain regions implicated in inhibitory control and decision making, combined with increased activity in reward processing pathways. To test this hypothesis, the investigators will recruit 120 healthy weight children, aged 7-8 years, at two levels of obesity risk (i.e., 60 high-risk and 60 low-risk) based on parent weight status. This will result in 240 participants: 120 children and their parents.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 254 |
Est. completion date | June 20, 2023 |
Est. primary completion date | June 20, 2023 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 7 Years to 8 Years |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Child is in good health based on parental self-report - Child has no learning disabilities (e.g., ADHD) - Child has no diagnosed psychological or medical conditions/devices, or metal in/on the body that may impact comfort or safety in the fMRI (e.g., anxiety, insulin pump) - Child is not on any medications known to influence body weight, taste, food intake, behavior, or blood flow - Child is not claustrophobic - Child is between the ages of 7-8 years-old at enrollment - Child's immediate family members have not been diagnosed with a psychological disorder, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, etc. - Child's biological mother and biological father have a body mass index either between 18.5 - 25 kg/m2 (low-risk group) or biological mother has a body mass index greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2 and biological father has a body mass index greater than or equal to 25 kg/m2 (high-risk group) - Child's parent participating in study must be available to attend visits with child Exclusion Criteria: - Child is not in good health based on parent self-report - Child has any learning disabilities (e.g., ADHD) - Child has any psychological or medical conditions/devices that may impact comfort in the fMRI (e.g., anxiety, insulin pump) - Child is taking any medications known to influence body weight, taste, food intake, behavior, or blood flow - Child is claustrophobic - Child is less than 7 or greater than 8 years-old at enrollment - Child has any immediate family members diagnosed with a psychological disorder, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, etc. - Child's biological mother or biological father's body mass index do not fit into the parameters for either group (both biological parents < 18.5 for low-risk group or biological mother is < 30 and biological father is < 25 for high-risk group) - Child's parent participating in study is not available to attend visits with child - Child is blue/green colorblind - Child is not fluent in the English language |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | The Pennsylvania State University | University Park | Pennsylvania |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Penn State University |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Physical Activity | An additional endpoint include the relationship between child behavioral and brain response to food portion size and physical activity assessed by accelerometry. | baseline | |
Other | Loss of control eating | An additional endpoint include the relationship between child behavioral and brain response to food portion size and Loss of control eating. | baseline | |
Other | Parent-described eating behaviors | An additional endpoint includes the relationship between child behavioral and brain response to food portion size and Parent-described eating behaviors. | baseline | |
Primary | Brain Responses to Portion Size | The investigators will use functional magnetic resonance imaging to characterize the brain regions which are activated in response to food portion size and compare these regions between high- and low-risk children. | baseline | |
Primary | Food Intake Relationship to Portion Size | The investigators will determine the relationship between brain response to visual portion size cues and measured food intake when portions are increased in laboratory meals. | baseline | |
Primary | The Change in DXA analysis of child adiposity after 1 year | The investigators will determine the extent to which baseline brain and behavioral responses to portion size predict gains in adiposity assessed by anthropometrics (body weight, height, and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry). Body weight (kg) and Height (m) will be aggregated to report BMI in kg/m^2. | From baseline visit to 1 year later | |
Secondary | Brain Response Relationships | The investigators will determine the relationship between brain response to large portions and other validated measures of overeating, including satiety responsiveness and the amount of calories children consumed from high calorie snacks when they are not hungry (i.e., eating in the absence of hunger). | baseline | |
Secondary | Inhibitory control assessed by a Stop Signal test | An additional endpoint includes the relationship between child behavioral and brain response to food portion size and Inhibitory control assessed by a Stop Signal test. | baseline | |
Secondary | Reward-related design | Reward-related design making assessed by a computer task. | baseline and 1 year later | |
Secondary | Working memory | Working memory assessed by an N-back task. | baseline and 1 year later | |
Secondary | Meal microstructure | Meal microstructure assessed by observational meal coding. | baseline and 1 year later | |
Secondary | Eating in the absence of hunger | Assessing child eating in the absence of hunger by buffet meal intake. | baseline and 1 year later |
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