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CompletedNCT03255304Updated Nov 27, 2019

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

An interventional study of health mindest and palatability mindset in Eating Behavior and Habits, sponsored by University Hospital Tuebingen. Completed at 1 site in Germany. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 50 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-11-27.

Sponsored by University Hospital Tuebingen · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
222
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
20 Years to 50 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

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

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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.

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Conditions studied

  • Eating Behavior
  • Habits
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • healthy volunteers

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • currently dieting
  • intolerance to provided food
  • cognitive impairment
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
222 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    health prime

    Behavioral: health mindest

  • Experimental
    palatability prime

    Behavioral: palatability mindset

Interventions

  • Behavioralhealth mindest

    groups be confronted with health aspects of food items

  • Behavioralpalatability mindset

    groups be confronted with palatability aspects of food items

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 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)

    Time frame: pre and post priming (directly before and directly after a 5 minutes priming paradigm)

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Study locations

1 site
  • University of Tübingen
    Tübingen, Germany
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03255304
Lead sponsor
University Hospital Tuebingen
Responsible party
Sabine Frank (Research Associate, University Hospital Tuebingen) — Principal investigator
First posted
Aug 21, 2017
Start date
May 1, 2018
Primary completion
Jun 1, 2019
Completion
Jun 1, 2019
Last update
Nov 27, 2019

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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