NCT04025099

Internal Cues Versus External Cues for Eating and Activity

Completed NA Last updated 27 April 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Internal Cues in Eating Behavior in 32 participants. Completed in 15 April 2020.

Timeline

8 September 2019

Primary endpoint
15 April 2020

15 April 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Delaware
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	32
Start date	8 September 2019
Primary completion	15 April 2020
Estimated completion	15 April 2020
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Internal Cues
• External Cues

Conditions studied

• Eating Behavior — all drugs for Eating Behavior →
• Body Image — all drugs for Body Image →
• Diet Habit — all drugs for Diet Habit →
• Dietary Habits — all drugs for Dietary Habits →

Sponsor

University of Delaware

Who can join

Adults 18 to 26, female only, with Eating Behavior or Body Image. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The majority of female undergraduate students experience disordered eating and/or weight gain, increasing the risk for two serious public health problems, eating disorders and obesity. Traditional nutrition education about weight control delivered during college has not been effective and may even exacerbate these problems. Thus, the investigators propose that instead of focusing on external information as taught by nutrition education (e.g. 'calories in, calories out', quantification and cognitive processing of nutrition information), at-risk females be trained to become more attuned to their internal hunger and fullness signaling to set them on a trajectory for decreased chronic disease risk as they age.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.