Active Video-game Playing and Food Intake in Children

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Appetitive Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing

• Registration Number: NCT03722251
• Lead Sponsor: Toronto Metropolitan University

Brief Summary

The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the effect of active video game playing for 30 minutes on food intake and subjective appetite. The investigators hypothesize that video game playing will affect food intake in children. Food intake will be measured at 30 minutes following a glucose (50g glucose in 250ml of water) or sweetened non-caloric (150mg Sucralose® in 250ml of water) beverage with or without active video game playing. Subjective appetite will be measured at 0, 15, 30 and 60 minutes.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-04-06
• Primary Completion: 2015-05-25
• Study Completion: 2015-05-25
• Status Verified: 2018-10
• Study First Submitted: 2018-10-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-10-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-10-25
• Study First Posted: 2018-10-26
• Last Update Posted: 2018-10-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 27

Inclusion Criteria

healthy boys with no emotional, behavioral or learning problems

Exclusion Criteria

• Exclusion criteria are children with significant behavioral or emotional difficulties, those with dietary restrictions, or those taking medications.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control Beverage	Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing	Sucralose in solution
Glucose beverage and active video game playing	Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing	50 g of glucose in solution and 30 min of active video game playing
Glucose Beverage	Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing	50 g of glucose in solution
Control Beverage and active video game playing	Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing	Sucralose in solution and 30 min of active video game playing

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Subjective appetite (mm)	baseline and then 15, 30, and 60 minutes after preload consumption	subjective appetite assessed by motivation-to-eat visual analogue scale. The scale range is between 0 and 100 mm. Higher scores represent higher appetite
Food Intake (kcal)	30 minutes after treatment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Subjective Mood (mm)	baseline and then 15, 30, and 60 minutes after preload consumption	Measured using visual analogue scale (mm). Each VAS is a 100 mm line where they will place a pencil mark to describe their feelings.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

School of Nutrition, Ryerson University; 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada