BRAND'S® Essence of Chicken in the Promotion of Resilience and Resistance to Stress-associated Cognitive Inhibition

Taipei Medical University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Metabolism; Immunity; Stress Associated Cognitive Inhibition; Essence of Chicken; Cognition

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Chicken Essence

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02166931

201306043

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether BRAND'S® Essence of Chicken are effective in the promotion of resilience and resistance to stress-associated cognitive inhibition.

Full description

This is a placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind trial. There will be 100 subjects. Subjects are randomly assigned into either placebo or BRAND'S® Essence of Chicken (BEC), 70cc daily for 2 weeks, group.

Stress test, cognitive function assessment and blood tests will be carried out at Week 0, Week 2, and Week 4 (2 weeks after termination of supplementation).

The primary end-point is the better improvement of cognitive function after supplement with BEC than placebo. The second endpoints include improvement of global health survey and changes of biomarkers related to stress and immunity.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged over 20 years,
• mildly stressed with Perceive Stress Scale (PSS) score higher than 25
• All the participants should not require medication for their mood disturbance affected by stress during the trial.

Exclusion criteria

• history of chronic diseases
• any psychiatric or neurological diseases (e.g. depression)
• other medical illnesses (e.g. stroke, diabetes, other cardiovascular diseases)
• allergy history to chicken

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

placebo with the same color, order, taste as BRAND'S® Essence of Chicken , 70cc daily for 2weeks

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Chicken Essence

Chicken Essence

Experimental group

Description:

BRAND'S® Chicken Essence 70cc, daily for 2 weeks

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Chicken Essence