Clinical trials: Eating
Diet, Healthy
Promoting Healthier Eating Among Children in Restaurants
Restaurants are normative eating contexts for many families. Restaurant meals tend to be higher in calories and lower in nutritional quality than those prepared at home.
- Trial name
- NCT04334525
- Testing
- Choice architecture + repeated exposure, Active comparator
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 554 people
- Sponsor
- State University of New York at Buffalo
Healthy Infant Nutrition
Baylor Infant Biomarker of Nutrition Study
The study evaluates the the utility of a non-invasive skin measurement as a biomarker of infant food intake during complementary feeding.
- Trial name
- BIBS (NCT03996395)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 21 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Baylor College of Medicine
Childhood Obesity, Overweight and Obesity
Childhood Obesity - Prevention of Diabetes Through Changed Eating Patterns
The main purpose of the present study is to perform a 10 weeks dietary intervention study with a follow-up for 52 weeks in children from 7-14 years of age with overweight or obesity.
- Conditions
- Childhood Obesity, Overweight and Obesity, Adolescent Obesity, Adolescent Overweight
- Trial name
- COPE (NCT04522921)
- Testing
- Diet with a higher amount of protein (25E% per day), Increased follow-up contact after the 10-week intervention, Diet with a lower amount of protein (15E% per day)
- Where
- 2 sites in Denmark
- Volunteers
- 211 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Crohn's Disease
Eating Behaviour in Crohn's Disease
Food intake is mainly controlled through interactions between the gut and brain (the homeostatic control) and through our environment, with food exposure, mood and past experiences (the hedonic control) playing a major role.
- Trial name
- NCT02379117
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 61 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Obesity
The Beneficial Effects of Healthy Snacks on Appetite Control, Satiety, and Reward-driven Eating Behavior in Young People
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of normal vs. protein-rich afternoon snacks on appetite control, satiety, and reward-driven eating (particularly in the evening) in young people.
- Trial name
- NCT01781286
- Testing
- High Protein, Low Protein
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 37 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Missouri-Columbia
Disorder of Bone Density and Structure, Unspecified
Effects of rhIGF-1 on Bone Metabolism in Adolescent Girls With Anorexia Nervosa
Adolescents and young adults with anorexia nervosa (AN) are at high risk for low bone mineral density at a time when healthy adolescents are rapidly accruing bone, with implications for peak bone mass and fracture risk in later…
- Trial name
- 814 (NCT00720122)
- Testing
- Recombinant human insulin like growth factor-1 (rhIGF-1)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Anorexia Nervosa
A Double-blind, Placebo Controlled Trial of Risperidone for the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa
The aim of this pilot study is to determine the safety and efficacy of risperidone for the treatment of anorexia nervosa. Hypothesis 1: Subjects on risperidone will show a more significant decrease in body image distortion and…
- Trial name
- NCT00140426
- Testing
- Risperidone
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 41 people
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Pediatric Obesity
Healthy Eating for My Infant (HEMI)
Infants from underserved and minority backgrounds are at increased risk for obesity and poor feeding and nutrition outcomes, but obesity prevention programs tailored specifically to the needs of these infants are lacking.
- Trial name
- NCT04977947
- Testing
- Healthy Eating for My Infant
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Cincinnati
Nutritional Assessment
Validity of the PortionSize App to Measure Children's Food Intake
The purpose of this study is to assess the validity of the PortionSize™ app to quantify children's own dietary intake and children's intake by parents or caregivers.
- Trial name
- NCT05587816
- Testing
- Validation of the PortionSize app
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Childhood Obesity
Piloting a Family-Based Intervention of Time-Restricted Eating to Treat Obesity
This study will test whether managing the hours during which people eat, called time restricted eating, might help them to lose weight. For this study, one parent and a child will enroll as a group (called a dyad).
- Trial name
- NCT05107726
- Testing
- TRE Group
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Anorexia Nervosa, Constipation
The Role of Lactobacillus Reuteri in Children and Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa
The aim of this study is to investigate whether Lactobacillus reuteri could have a beneficial role in treatment of children and adolescents with Anorexia nervosa who develop motility disorder due to the malnutrition regarding the…
- Trial name
- NCT02004288
- Testing
- Lactobacillus reuteri Protectis DSM17938
- Where
- Croatia
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- BioGaia AB
Anorexia Nervosa
Feasibility Study Comparing Standard FBT and Guided Self-Help FBT for Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
This study examines a parent only Guided Self-Help for Family Based Treatment (GSH-FBT) for adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa.
- Trial name
- NCT04957498
- Testing
- Guided Self-Help for Family Based Treatment, Family Based Treatment
- Where
- 2 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Infant of Diabetic Mother, Oxidative Stress
NAC +taVNS in IDM Who Are Poor Oral Feeders
Infants of diabetic mothers who are failing to learn oral feeding by term age equivalence have greater CNS oxidative stress, which interact to predict poor neuroplasticity response to transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation paired…
- Conditions
- Infant of Diabetic Mother, Oxidative Stress, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, Feeding Disorders
- Trial name
- NCT04632069
- Testing
- N acetyl cysteine + vagus nerve stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Feeding Disorders, Specific Phobia
D-cycloserine and Treatment of Feeding Disorders
The proposed study represents the first attempt to systematically investigate the use of DCS as an adjunct to behavioral intervention to address chronic food aversion through an randomized control drug trial in children treated…
- Trial name
- NCT01923896
- Testing
- Behavioral Intervention, d-cycloserine (DCS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- Emory University
Active Video Games and Appetite Control
Active Video Games and Appetite Control in Adolescents
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: Video games have enormous mass appeal, are omnipresent in the daily schedule of most children and youth and have been linked to the obesity epidemic.
- Trial name
- NCT01655901
- Testing
- Active video gaming, Passive video gaming, Resting
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Neonatal Opiate Withdrawal Syndrome
Eating, Sleeping, Consoling for Neonatal Withdrawal (ESC-NOW): a Function-Based Assessment and Management Approach
The overall objective is to determine if the ESC care approach will reduce the time until infants being managed for NOWS are medically ready for discharge.
- Trial name
- (ESC-NOW) (NCT04057820)
- Testing
- Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool, Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) care tool
- Where
- 26 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,305 people
- Sponsor
- Advancing Clinical Trials in Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal (ACT NOW) Program
Anorexia Nervosa
Adrenal and Gonadal Hormone Replacement in Anorexia Nervosa
This study seeks to gain new information on why young women with anorexia nervosa are predisposed to early bone loss and osteoporosis.
- Trial name
- NCT00310791
- Testing
- Hormone replacement therapy (estrogen/progestin), Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
Alcohol; Use, Problem, Stress
A Behavioral Activation Intervention Administered in a College Freshman Orientation Course
The transition from high school to college is a developmentally sensitive period that is high risk for escalations in alcohol use.
- Conditions
- Alcohol; Use, Problem, Stress, Binge Eating, Depression
- Trial name
- NCT04038190
- Testing
- behavioral activation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 572 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Kansas
Eating Disorder
Efficacy Trial of a Dissonance Based Eating Disorder Program
The purpose of this clinical trial is to investigate whether symptoms of disordered eating change among participants who complete an intervention.
- Trial name
- NCT03796091
- Testing
- Educational Brochure, Body Project Traditional, Body Project Expanded
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 180 people
- Sponsor
- Cornell College
Obesity, Overweight
Mobile Attention Retraining in Overweight Female Adolescents
Background: People are constantly exposed to unhealthy foods. Some studies of adults show that training attention away from unhealthy foods might reduce overeating.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Overweight, Binge Eating, Healthy Volunteers
- Trial name
- NCT02977403
- Testing
- Attention Bias Retraining
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)