Peer Interactions and Food Are Substitutable in Youth

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00875121

Enrollment

Unknown

Registered

2009-04-03

Start date

2007-10-31

Completion date

2008-12-31

Last updated

2009-05-12

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Conditions

Activity Choices, Caloric Intake, Social Time

Keywords

Food reinforcement, social reinforcers, overweight, children

Brief summary

This study examines the effects of increasing the cost of social interactions and food on overweight and non-overweight youth. Using a computerized operant task youth will earn points exchangeable for food and social activity. The investigators predict that both overweight and non-overweight children will substitute food for interactions with an unfamiliar peer when this alternative is made expensive. Also, the investigators predict that both overweight and lean participants will defend their choice to spend time with a friend even when this alternative is made expensive.

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

9 Years to 11 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Boys and girls ages 9-11 * Children must have a BMI equal to or greater than 15th percentile for their age * Children must report at least a moderate liking of the study foods

Exclusion criteria

* Children should not have any food allergies * Children should not have any dietary restraint * Children should not a cold or upper respiratory distress * Children should not have any psychopathology * Children should not have any developmental disabilities * Children should not be taking any medications that could influence their sense of smell and taste and activity level

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Caloric Intake	—
Social Time	—

Countries

United States

Outcome results