An interventional study of Sensory imagination about foods in Sensory Imagination, sponsored by Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 7 Years to 13 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-07-23.
Sponsored by Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
The objective of this intervention is to evaluate the effect of sensory imagination (i.e., imagining the sensory properties of an object) on the choice of food portion size in school-aged children. Previous research showed that it may help children to choose smaller portion size. The investigators would like to assess whether this effect can be reproduced with two types of food (one with a high energy-density and one with a low energy-density), and in older children.
School-aged children (8-11 years old) will be included in their usual schools to participate in an afternoon snack, organised according to regular arrangements, during two days separated by one week. On each day, the participants will receive a choice of three portion sizes of a food (small, medium, large), and will be asked to chose one of these portions and to eat it for snack. On one day, the high energy-density food will be offered; and on the other day, the low energy-density food. This will be counterbalanced across participants. Moreover, two groups of children will be constituted: the first group, the control group, will have to perform a sensory imagination task about neutral facts. The second group, the "food sensory imagination" group, will have to perform a sensory imagination task foods.
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Inclusion Criteria:
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Exclusion Criteria:
This group of children, will have to perform a sensory imagination task about neutral facts before choosing the portion size of a food.
This group, the "food sensory imagination" group, will have to perform a sensory imagination task foods (being the intervention) before choosing the portion size of a food.
Behavioral: Sensory imagination about foods
In both groups, children will be presented with pictures of items. In the control group, the pictures will represent landscapes at different seasons. In the experimental group, the pictures will represent a variety of foods. In the experimental group, based on the pictures representing a variety of foods, children will have to perform a food sensory imagination task before choosing the portion size of a food.
portion size
choice of a portion size among three sizes (small, medium, large), for two different foods
Time frame: The measure for the two foods will be conducted one week apart
Plan to share: No
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