Active Video-game Playing and Food Intake in Children

Toronto Metropolitan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Appetitive Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03722251

REB: 2012-120-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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27 participants in 4 patient groups

Glucose Beverage

Experimental group

Description:

50 g of glucose in solution

Treatment:

Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing

Control Beverage

Experimental group

Description:

Sucralose in solution

Treatment:

Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing

Glucose beverage and active video game playing

Experimental group

Description:

50 g of glucose in solution and 30 min of active video game playing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing

Control Beverage and active video game playing

Experimental group

Description:

Sucralose in solution and 30 min of active video game playing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing