The SMARTY Trial: Evaluating the Effects of Colour of Candy on Perceptions of Taste. A Randomised Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 撤回
- 入组人数
- 150
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Taste
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this trial is to determine if the colour of sweets (candy) effects taste.
详细描述
The purpose of this trial is to increase children's awareness of randomised controlled trials and gain insights into the best way to conduct a fair comparison. Everyday children are faced with health claims, some reliable and some not so reliable. The purpose of the SMARTY trial is to help children critically assess and develop a critical eye when it comes to information they encounter every day, in particular when it comes to their health. The SMARTY trial is a pragmatic, two group, parallel, randomised trial.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
Single - Participant
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 4 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •parental/guardian consent obtained
排除标准
- •unable or unwilling to ingest intervention.
- •medical conditions which prohibit ingestion of intervention (ie allergy, intolerance etc)
研究组 & 干预措施
Experimental
Participants will be randomised to eat an orange coloured smartie©
干预措施: Smartie© sweet/candy (Other)
Control Group
Participants will be randomised to eat a pink coloured smartie ©
干预措施: Smartie© sweet/candy (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Taste
时间窗: 15 minutes
Participants will be asked to indicate on visual scale how much they like the taste of the smartie© they ate using the 'single-item sleep quality scale (SQS)' . The SQS is a self-administered visual analogue scale on which respondents rate the overall quality of sleep over a 7-day recall period on a likert type scaling option from 0 to 10, according to the following five categories: 0 = terrible, 1-3 = poor, 4-6 = fair, 7-9 = good, and 10 = excellent .
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Prof. Declan Devane
Scientific Director, HRB-Trials Methodology Research Network
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland