Game ON: Investigating the effect of a health game on automatic associations towards unhealthy food

Game ON: Investigating the impact of a health game on implicit attitude towards food

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON28260

Enrollment

100

Registered

2015-09-01

Start date

2015-09-14

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

Overweight, Obesity, Health Game, Adolescents, Treatment. Overgewicht, Obesitas, Adolescenten, Behandeling

Interventions

Adolescents are randomly assigned to the experimental or control condition, resulting in two conditions. 1. The first condition, ‘Health game Sky Islands’, will consist of a single session of the heal

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Adolescents between 10 to 16 years of age; 2. Informed consent from the adolescents and one of their parents/ caregivers; 3. Overweight or Obesity (BMI cut-off values appropriate for age and gender will be used).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. No informed consent from the adolescents and one of their parents/ caregivers; 2. Adolescents with very limited knowledge of the Dutch language.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Implicit attitude towards food (Greenwald, 1998).	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Explicit attitude towards food (liking and craving, measured on a visual analogue scale). 2. Food behaviour 1; effort to acquire food (measured with a digital snack dispenser paradigm designed by van Koningsbruggen, G.M., Veling, H., Stroebe, W. & Aarts, H. (2014)) 3. Food behaviour 2; virtual food choice (measured with a digital food choice question).	—

Contacts

Public ContactEva Alblas

Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University

E.Alblas@bsi.ru.nlTel: +31 (0)24-3612348

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)