Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children
Characterizing Top-down Dimensions of Appetite Self-regulation Among Preschoolers
Temple University
125 participants
Oct 5, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Scientific knowledge of the cognitive-developmental processes that serve to support children's appetite self-regulation are surprisingly limited. This investigation will provide new scientific directions for obesity prevention by elucidating cognitive-developmental influences on young children's ability to make healthy food choices and eat in moderation.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria3
- Child ages 4 to 6 years of age
- Caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare
- Caregiver legal guardian
Exclusion Criteria4
- Caregiver \<18 years of age
- Child major food allergies
- Child medication use, developmental disability, or medical conditions known to affect food intake and/or growth; color blindness
- Child in foster care
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Interventions
Interventions take place solely at the measurement level, where children will be seen in observational tasks of general executive functioning and executive functioning around eating in which various food and non-food stimuli are presented and children's responses to task instructions are recorded.
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NCT06108128