Clinical trials: Eating Habits
Food Habits, Food Preferences
Promoting Vegetable Intake in Preschool Aged Children
The aim of this cluster randomised control trial is to test the efficacy of a repeated taste exposure intervention, a nutritional educational intervention and combination of both to increase intake of an unfamiliar vegetable in…
- Conditions
- Food Habits, Food Preferences, Behavior, Health Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT03003923
- Testing
- Taste exposure, Nutritional education
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Leeds
Anorexia Nervosa
Influence of Reward and Punishment on Goal-directed and Habit Learning in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
The proposed study of adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN) will examine the association of behavioral differences in constructs of decision making, brain structure and connectivity, and eating disorder (ED) symptoms.
- Trial name
- NCT04051879
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 78 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Food Habits
Fostering Healthy and Sustainable Diets Through School Meals
School meals have considerable potential to shape children's diets and reduce the climate impact of meals. This study applies linear programming for developing and implementing a climate friendly, nutritious and affordable school…
- Trial name
- OPTIMAT (NCT04168632)
- Testing
- OPTIMAT
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 1,635 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Karolinska Institutet
Gut Microbiome, Neurocognitive Correlates of Eating Habits
Early Avocado Exposure on Development and the Gut Microbiome in American Hispanic Infants
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if daily avocado intake can improve growth and brain and gut health in infants. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does daily eating of avocados change which microbes live in the…
- Conditions
- Gut Microbiome, Neurocognitive Correlates of Eating Habits, Infant Growth
- Trial name
- Guac & Grow (NCT06876935)
- Testing
- Daily avocado
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
Nutritional Anemia, Nutritional Deficiency
Nutrition Intervention to Address Anemia Among Adolescent Girls in Liberia
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of weekly iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation and one-time deworming treatment at the community level in improving hemoglobin levels among…
- Conditions
- Nutritional Anemia, Nutritional Deficiency, Iron Deficiency Anemia Treatment, Folic Acid Deficiency Anemia, Dietary
- Trial name
- NCT05073562
- Testing
- Iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation, Targeted nutrition education, Mebendazole Pill
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
Overweight, Obesity
Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls Preventing Unhealthy Weight Gain
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of a multicomponent school-based intervention based on Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory targeting healthy eating and physical activity for high school adolescent girls from…
- Trial name
- NCT02228447
- Testing
- Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls Group
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 244 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
Dental Caries in Children, Diet Habit
Maternal Control of the Child's Feeding, Child's Eating Behavior and Early Childhood Caries in Preschoolers
Dental caries in children is considered one of the most prevalent oral diseases of this age group, leading to significant manifestations presenting as pain, interference with feeding, higher risk of developing dental caries in…
- Conditions
- Dental Caries in Children, Diet Habit, Dietary Exposure, Eating Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT06898918
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 208 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ain Shams University
Gut Microbiome, Neurocognitive Correlates of Eating Habits
Tiny Tummies - A Milk Study
This is a 12-month, 2-arm randomized controlled trial (n=150) examining whether toddlers randomized at 12 months of age to 1.5 cup-equivalents/day of cow's milk-based dairy versus oat milk-based dairy, and followed to 24 months…
- Conditions
- Gut Microbiome, Neurocognitive Correlates of Eating Habits, Infants and Young Children, Sleep
- Trial name
- NCT07839156
- Testing
- Daily cow's milk products, Daily Oat Milk Exposure
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
Gliosis, Child Obesity
Building Research for Intervention Development in Gliosis and Eating Habits
The goal of this study is to 1) use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate the effect of nutritious foods on inflammation in the human hypothalamus of children and 2) assess the feasibility and acceptability of nutritious…
- Conditions
- Gliosis, Child Obesity, Eating
- Trial name
- BRIDGE (NCT06870578)
- Testing
- Diet modification
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Thinness, Food Habits
Promotion of Egg and Eggshell Powder Consumption Improve Nutritional Status of Children in Halaba Ethiopia
Young children in Ethiopia lack sufficient protein and micronutrients for growth and development. The overall purpose is to assess the effects of promoting egg and eggshell powder consumption on improving the nutritional status…
- Conditions
- Thinness, Food Habits, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices
- Trial name
- NCT02791100
- Testing
- Promotion of chicken eggs
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 287 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Saskatchewan
Obesity, Adolescent, Eating, Healthy
Prevention of Eating Habits Associated With Obesity
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a Wise Intervention based on a values alignment approach to improve obesity-related eating habits in Spanish adolescents.
- Trial name
- NCT05865444
- Testing
- Values alignment wise intervention, Educational traditional intervention
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 591 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Deusto
Families, Children
Promotion of Healthy Eating Habits and Physical Activity Among Children and Their Families.
Eating habits and physical activity are key determinants of individual health. The family plays a relevant role in educating children about healthy lifestyles.
- Conditions
- Families, Children, Food Habits, Physical Activity
- Trial name
- ALIAFF (NCT06794411)
- Testing
- Intervention group: Food habits and physical activity program, Usual Care Group
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 57 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia
Obesity, Childhood, Health Behavior
School-Based Intervention Program to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
The purpose of this research is to develop, apply, and evaluate a school-based intervention program in East Jerusalem schools, designed to increase knowledge and to improve the attitudes and healthy behavior of schoolchildren…
- Conditions
- Obesity, Childhood, Health Behavior, Physical Activity, Dietary Habits
- Trial name
- NCT03205293
- Testing
- Intervention Program to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity among Palestinian Female Schoolchildren
- Volunteers
- 1,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hadassah Medical Organization
Obesity, Behavior
Increasing Vegetable Intake in Children
The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of an innovative approach to increase the amount of vegetable's (V) intake consumed by preschool children who are predominately African-American (AA) and Hispanic-American (HA).
- Conditions
- Obesity, Behavior, Food Habits
- Trial name
- NCT02216968
- Testing
- Increase vegetable intake in pre-school children
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Baylor College of Medicine
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), Crohn Disease (CD)
Study on Eating Habits and Association with "omic" Profiles in Families with a Subject Affected by a Chronic Immune-mediated Inflammatory Pathology. Observational Multicenter Study.
The proposed study is part of a PNRR 2022 project (call "Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) with high impact on healthcare and social assistance systems," currently awaiting funding response) and represents the continuation…
- Conditions
- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), Crohn Disease (CD), Ulcerative Colitis (UC)
- Trial name
- DIETA-MICIREUM (NCT06862843)
- Testing
- Collecting questionnaires and biological samples
- Where
- 4 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS
Obesity, Childhood
Evaluation of the Impact of Eating Habits on Children's Corpulence
Childhood obesity has been rising steadily over the past 40 years. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) observed around 340 million overweight or obese children and adolescents worldwide, including one in five in France.
- Trial name
- KALI SANTE (NCT06128083)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 202 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
Children, Only, Behavior, Eating
School Lunch Salad Bars and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
The investigators propose an efficacy study (i.e., do salad bars work under controlled conditions in naturalistic settings) to test whether introducing salad bars in elementary, middle, and high schools that have never had salad…
- Conditions
- Children, Only, Behavior, Eating, School, Obesity
- Trial name
- NCT03283033
- Testing
- New salad bar, Marketing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 7,491 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
Parental Feeding Practices and Children's Healthy Diet
The SmartFeeding4Kids: Study of a New Web-based Food Parenting Intervention
This research aims to develop and study the efficacy of a web-based brief intervention, Smart Feeding4Kids, to promote healthy dietary patterns in young children (2 to 6 years old) through changes in parents' feeding practices.
- Trial name
- SF4K (NCT04591496)
- Testing
- Behavioral change intervention;, Health Education
- Where
- Portugal
- Volunteers
- 260 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Lisbon
Sleep, Food Habits
Sleep Duration and Quality in Children
Obesity in children is a priority of public health initiatives, and reliable obesity prevalence and severity assessments are needed for policy decisions and study directions.
- Conditions
- Sleep, Food Habits, Lifestyle Factors
- Trial name
- Sleep-FAST (NCT05652829)
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
Physical Activity, Strength
Calisthenics-Based Intervention in Adolescents: Effects on Strength, Body Composition, Eating Habits, and Self-Concept
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a school-based calisthenics intervention in promoting physical activity and improving health-related outcomes in adolescents.
- Conditions
- Physical Activity, Strength, Body Composition, Self Concept
- Trial name
- CALI-TEENS (NCT07584551)
- Testing
- Calisthenics, Physical Activity School Education Program
- Where
- Colombia
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitat de Lleida