Time Restricted Eating, Eating Behaviors, and Cardiometabolic Risk in Emerging Adult Women
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Time Restricted Eating
- Sponsor
- University of Delaware
- Enrollment
- 36
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Emotional Eating
- Status
- Recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess how time restricted eating interventions impact eating behaviors, diet quality, and body composition in women ages 20-29 years. Participants will be asked to limit all food and drinks (except water and some non-caloric beverages) to a 10-hour period during the day for four weeks. Participants will follow their usual eating and activity patterns for one week before starting, and follow whatever eating pattern they want for 4 weeks after finishing.
Investigators
Carly R Pacanowski
Associate Professor
University of Delaware
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Able to speak and read English
- •Own a smartphone
- •BMI ≥ 20 kg/m2
- •Usual eating window ≥ 12 hours with the last eating occasion after 8pm on the majority of days
- •Have at least a moderate baseline level of dietary restraint
Exclusion Criteria
- •Shift workers
- •Being pregnant, nursing, or planning to become pregnant in the next 6 months
- •Having a past or current eating disorder diagnosis
- •Having a chronic medical condition (including diabetes, heart, kidney, or thyroid disease) or a condition that requires therapeutic diet or specified meal timing
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Emotional Eating
Time Frame: 3 time points: baseline, end of 4-week intervention, end of 4-week follow up
Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire: Emotional Eating Subscale. This subscale is scored from 1-5, with higher scores indicating higher emotional eating.
External Eating
Time Frame: 3 time points: baseline, end of 4-week intervention, end of 4-week follow up
Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire: External Eating Subscale. This subscale is scored from 1-5, with higher scores indicating higher external eating.
Eating in the Absence of Hunger
Time Frame: Baseline week, weeks 1 and 4 of intervention, weeks 1 and 4 of follow up
Assessed through surveys sent 5x/day asking about if food was eaten and why.
Secondary Outcomes
- Diet Quality(3 time points: baseline, end of 4-week intervention, end of 4-week follow up)
- Body composition (total percent body fat)(Baseline and end of 4-week intervention)
- Body composition (visceral fat)(Baseline and end of 4-week intervention)
- Body weight(3 time points: baseline, end of 4-week intervention, end of 4-week follow up)