Clinical trials: Ingestive Behavior
Obesity & Overweight, Childhood
Project GAME ON! A Digital Comic Tool to Promote Healthy Behaviors
This clinical trial aims to evaluate an interactive, culturally relevant digital health promotion comic designed to support healthy dietary and physical activity behaviors among Black/African American and Latino children ages 8…
- Conditions
- Obesity & Overweight, Childhood, Diet Habits, Engagement
- Trial name
- NCT07820735
- Testing
- Web-based customizable comic and newsletters, Didactic health information and newsletters, Web-based comic and newsletters
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tufts University
Infant Nutrition Disorders, Feeding Patterns
Effectiveness of a Dietary Counseling to Prevent Early Consumption of Added Sugar and Ultra-processed Foods
The purpose of the study is to prevent the early introduction of added sugar and ultra-processed foods and evaluate the impact on breastfeeding duration, complementary feeding quality, growth and prevalence of caries during the…
- Conditions
- Infant Nutrition Disorders, Feeding Patterns, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Trial name
- NCT03841123
- Testing
- Dietary Counseling
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 516 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre
Dietary Habits, Eating Behavior
Engaging School and Family in Navajo Gardening for Health
This study builds on several years of working with Navajo communities to increase gardening and healthy eating. In collaboration with the Dream Diné Charter School in Shiprock, NM, the investigators propose to develop a school…
- Conditions
- Dietary Habits, Eating Behavior, Health Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT03775889
- Testing
- Gardening
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
GERD, Apnea Neonatal
Effects of Vented Base Feeding Bottle in Preterm Infants With GERD Symptoms.
Aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of vented base bottles on respiration-swallow patterns and on gastroesophageal refluxes in preterm infants with clinical suspect of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
- Trial name
- FeedGERD (NCT03031288)
- Testing
- A, B
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University of Turin, Italy
Premature Infant, Breast Feeding, Exclusive
Amphia Premature Infant Pain Study
Last thirty years, many research was performed concerning pain in the newborn. These investigations showed us the negative effects of pain in the neonatal period.
- Conditions
- Premature Infant, Breast Feeding, Exclusive, Puncture Skin
- Trial name
- APIP (NCT01276366)
- Testing
- breast feeding, supplemental breast milk, sucrose
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Amphia Hospital
Diarrhea, Malnutrition
Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development
Malnutrition is considered one of the most prevalent risk factors for morbidity and mortality in children under five. An estimated 20% of children in the developing world are malnourished [1] and poor nutrition is linked to more…
- Conditions
- Diarrhea, Malnutrition, Stunting, Wasting
- Trial name
- MAL-ED (NCT02441426)
- Where
- 8 sites in Bangladesh, Brazil and 6 more
- Volunteers
- 1,796 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
Childhood Obesity
Feeding Young Children Study: Bottle Weaning Intervention
This Integrated Project (Research + Extension) aims to reduce the risk of early childhood overweight through changing bottle-feeding behavior.
- Trial name
- FYCS (NCT00756626)
- Testing
- Bottle Weaning Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Montefiore Medical Center
Type 1 Diabetes, Eating Disorders
Study Comparing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Supportive Diabetes Counseling and a Waitlist Control for Eating Disorders in Type 1 Diabetes
The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether a new intervention works to treat eating disorders in type 1 diabetes. Participants are assigned to one of the following: (1) Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), (2)…
- Conditions
- Type 1 Diabetes, Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Purging (Eating Disorders)
- Trial name
- NCT05540704
- Testing
- ACT, Supportive Diabetes Counseling
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 235 people
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Breastfeeding
Frenotomy of the Labial Frenulum in Infants With Breastfeeding Difficulties
Upper lingual frenulum have been implicated as a cause for pain during breastfeeding and latch problems. The investigators hypothesize that performing frenotomy of the frenulum may improve breastfeeding.
- Trial name
- NCT00970255
- Testing
- Lingual Frenulum frenotomy
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Osteosarcoma, Ewing Sarcoma
Dietary Habits, Metabolome, Immune Profile and Microbiota in Patients With Bone Sarcoma
Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma treatment has not changed in the last 30 years. For other types of cancer the epidemiologic and prognostic correlations between dietary behavior, lifestyle and metabolic alterations (i.e.obesity…
- Trial name
- Metabol-Sarc (NCT04735289)
- Testing
- EPIC-COS Food Frequency Questionnaire diet Evaluation, Metabolome, Microbiota, Lymphocytes subpopulations
- Where
- 7 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 810 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
Diet Habit, Diet, Healthy
The Southern Italian Children, Adolescents and PaRents COhort Study on Nutrition and Health
Childhood obesity is a major public health concern worldwide and parents play a powerful role in children's eating behaviour. Most prior studies analysed parents and children's diet almost exclusively by evaluating food…
- Conditions
- Diet Habit, Diet, Healthy, Child Obesity, Parents
- Trial name
- ICARO (NCT05784376)
- Testing
- Education-based
- Volunteers
- 1,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Neuromed IRCCS
Eating Behavior
Impact of Web-based School Nutrition Intervention to Increase Fruits, Vegetables and Dairy
The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of an innovative web-based school nutrition intervention (Team Nutriathlon) aimed at promoting the consumption of vegetables and fruit and dairy products in high school students…
- Trial name
- NCT03117374
- Testing
- Team Nutriathlon intervention
- Volunteers
- 282 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Laval University
Infant, Extremely Low Birth Weight, Feeding Behavior
Somatosensory Modulation of Salivary Gene Expression and Oral Feeding in Preterm Infants
Two innovative approaches, pulsatile orocutaneous entrainment of non-nutritive suck via orosensory entrainment (NTrainer) device technology and serial salivary gene expression analyses, will be merged to examine the relation…
- Trial name
- NCT02696343
- Testing
- NTrainer
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 121 people
- Sponsor
- University of Nebraska Lincoln
Obesity
Ecological Momentary Assessment of Eating Behavior in Overweight Youth
The current study seeks to elucidate the context of pathological and non-pathological eating behavior in a heterogeneous sample of overweight and obese children, aged 8-14 years.
- Trial name
- NCT02585518
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Breast Feeding, Lactation
RELIANCE: Moringa in Lactation and Early Childhood
This study will assess the impact of maternal moringa supplementation to mothers of breastfeeding infants on milk output, milk composition, exclusive breastfeeding duration, and maternal and child health.
- Trial name
- NCT07605091
- Testing
- Moringa Leaf Powder, Carrier
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Philip Kern
Preterm, Feeding, Bottle
Comparison of Bottle and Cup Feeding on Transition to Full Breastfeeding and Discharge Time
Breastfeeding is the ideal feeding method and that in the absence of breastfeeding the bottle and cup feeding are common alternatives. There is a lack of evidence regarding superiority of either of these methods.
- Conditions
- Preterm, Feeding, Bottle, Feeding Behavior, Feeding, Breast
- Trial name
- NCT04975282
- Testing
- Bottle feeding, Cup feeding
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 158 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pamukkale University
Dyslipidemia, Diabetes
Meta-analyses of the Effect of Important Food Sources of Sugars on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors
Fructose-containing sugars have been implicated in the epidemics of obesity, diabetes and related cardiometabolic disorders. This view is supported by lower quality evidence from ecological observations, animal models, and select…
- Conditions
- Dyslipidemia, Diabetes, Prediabetes, Dysglycemia
- Trial name
- NCT02716870
- Testing
- Fructose-containing Sugars
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Toronto
Diet Habit, Nutritional and Metabolic Disease
The Danish National Survey of Diet and Physical Activity 2021-2024
The Danish National Survey of Diet and Physical Activity (DANSDA) 2021-23 is a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of dietary and physical activity habits of 4-80 year-old Danes, and is carried out at the National…
- Conditions
- Diet Habit, Nutritional and Metabolic Disease, Lifestyle
- Trial name
- DANSDA (NCT04314882)
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 4,224 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Technical University of Denmark
Exclusive Breastfeeding, Feeding Patterns
SPOON: Sustained Program for Improving Nutrition - Mexico
The primary goal of this study is to assess the impact of an innovative strategy to prevent undernutrition and obesity in early childhood in children 0-24 months in Mexico.
- Conditions
- Exclusive Breastfeeding, Feeding Patterns, Stunting, Obesity, Childhood
- Trial name
- NCT03752762
- Testing
- SQ-LNS, SPOON behavioral change strategy
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Inter-American Development Bank
Breastfeeding
Efficacy of an Osteopathic Treatment for Mechanical Sucking Dysfunctions in Newborn
Breastfeeding is the physiological and recommended way of feeding newborns as indicated by the World Health Organization, Health Canada and the politics of perinatality 2008-2018 in Quebec.
- Trial name
- NCT02407860
- Testing
- osteopathic treatment, usual breastfeeding counselling
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 98 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Université de Sherbrooke