Obesity population
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants were recruited from the students of Tokyo medical and dental university.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: They fulfilled following exclusion criteria: (i) history of metabolic, neurological, or psychiatric diseases or any eating disorders, (ii) use of any medication, (iii) current or recent efforts to lose weight, (iv) pregnant, (v) BMI > 25 kg/m2.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Experiment 1: Assessments of hunger scales (hunger, fullness, preoccupation with food, desire to eat) with VAS (visual analogue scales), Reaction Time (RT) bias scores (calculated by subtracting the mean RTs to food images from the mean RTs to nonfood images) 1) before and after chewing gum and 2) before and after eating food. Experiment 2: Assessments of hunger scales (same as Experiment 1) with VAS, RT bias scores (same as Experiment 1), duration bias scores and direction bias scores to food with eye-tracking (ET) 1) before and after chewing gum and 2) before and after eating food. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Maxillofacial Orthognathics, Division of Maxillofacial and Neck Reconstruction