Effects of Playing Video Games on Energy Balance

University of Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Other: 1-hour video game play

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01013246

B268

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of playing video games on various components of energy balance and substrate metabolism as well as on glucose homeostasis and relevant hormonal systems that might be involved in the underlying mechanisms.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 15 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male adolescents between 15 and 19 years of age
• Normal weight (5th percentile to less than the 85th percentile)

Exclusion criteria

• Smoking
• Unstable body weight (±4 kg) during the 6 months preceding testing
• Regular physical exercise (>3 hours/week)
• Excessive intake of alcohol (>7 drinks/week)
• Substance abuse
• Metabolic disease (e.g. thyroid disease, heart disease, diabetes, etc.)
• Medication that could interfere with the outcome variables
• Eating disorder
• High restraint eating behavior (score ≥8 for cognitive dietary restraint in the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire)
• Irregular eating schedule (e.g. skipping breakfast)
• Unfamiliar with the use of video games
• Unable to comply with the protocol

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 1 patient group

Video game play

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: 1-hour video game play