The SMARTY Trial: Evaluating the Effects of Colour of Candy on Perceptions of Taste

Not Applicable

Withdrawn

• Conditions: Education
• Interventions: Other: Smartie© sweet/candy

• Registration Number: NCT04175015
• Lead Sponsor: National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Brief Summary

The purpose of this trial is to determine if the colour of sweets (candy) effects taste.

Detailed Description

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.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-11-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-11-20
• Study First Posted: 2019-11-22
• Study Start: 2019-11-24
• Primary Completion: 2019-11-24
• Study Completion: 2019-11-24
• Status Verified: 2024-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-10
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: WITHDRAWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

• parental/guardian consent obtained

Exclusion Criteria

• unable or unwilling to ingest intervention.
• medical conditions which prohibit ingestion of intervention (ie allergy, intolerance etc)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Experimental	Smartie© sweet/candy	Participants will be randomised to eat an orange coloured smartie©
Control Group	Smartie© sweet/candy	Participants will be randomised to eat a pink coloured smartie ©

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Taste	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 .

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National University of Ireland Galway; 🇮🇪 Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland