Inducing Children's Emotional Eating

NCT01122290 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: H10543 (Lboro)
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 64
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Background: Children's emotional eating is related to greater BMI and less healthy diet but little is known about the early development of this behavior. Objective: This study aimed to examine the relationships between preschool children's emotional eating and parental feeding practices using experimental manipulation of child mood and food intake in a laboratory setting. Design: 25 3-5 year old children and their mothers sat together and ate a standard meal to satiety. Mothers completed questionnaires about their feeding practices. Children were assigned to a control or negative mood condition. Children's consumption of snack foods in the absence of hunger was measured.

Conditions

Emotional Eating Behaviour

Keywords

Emotional eating; Eating in the absence of hunger; emotion induction

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• eating in the absence of hunger

  Child's consumption of kcal from snack foods in the absence of hunger

  @ 60 minutes into study, at ~4 years of age

Study Arms (2)

negative emotion

Children experienced induction of mild negative emotion through a jigsaw with a missing piece (negative emotion group)

neutral emotion

Vs. Same task with No missing piece (neutral emotion).

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 3 Years - 5 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

healthy 3-5 year old children in the UK (within approx. radius of 10 miles of Loughborough University).

You may qualify if:

• Child age between 3 years and 5 years
• No disease/disorder affecting eating
• No learning disability

You may not qualify if:

• Any child brought in by a (non-primary care-giving) grandparent
• Child BMI at extreme of sample
• Incongruous mood shift to condition
• Child of non-english speaking/reading parent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Birmingham: lead
• Loughborough University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University

Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Farrow CV, Haycraft E, Blissett JM. Teaching our children when to eat: how parental feeding practices inform the development of emotional eating--a longitudinal experimental design. Am J Clin Nutr. 2015 May;101(5):908-13. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.114.103713. Epub 2015 Mar 18.

  PMID: 25787999 DERIVED

• Blissett J, Haycraft E, Farrow C. Inducing preschool children's emotional eating: relations with parental feeding practices. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Aug;92(2):359-65. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2010.29375. Epub 2010 Jun 9.

  PMID: 20534744 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Emotional Eating

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Feeding Behavior; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: ECOLOGIC OR COMMUNITY
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 12, 2010
• First Posted: May 13, 2010
• Study Start: May 1, 2008
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2009
• Study Completion: June 1, 2009
• Last Updated: May 13, 2010

Record last verified: 2010-05

Locations

GB (1)