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Family Meal Duration and Children's Eating Behavior

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Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Status

Completed

Conditions

Child Behavior
Feeding Behavior
Family Relations
Eating

Treatments

Behavioral: Longer meal duration

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to test whether a longer meal duration could improve the diet quality of children. To answer this question we want to take an experimental approach by implementing a longer family meal duration to examine differences in children's eating behavior. The family dinner within a laboratory setting will be video taped and the main outcome is children's fruit and vegetables consumption.

Full description

Parent-child pairs have two dinner in a laboratory setting. The study design is a within-subject design: In the control condition they have as much time as they usual. In the intervention condition they have 50% more time than usual. Order of the two condition is counter balanced. The lab dinner reflects a typical German dinner which consists of bread, cheese, cold meat and fruits and vegetables. Additionally a dessert is served after the main meal. The foods served reflect food preferences of the child. All dinners are video taped. Key outcome variables are consumption of fruits and vegetables, dessert, eating rate and amount time engaged in positive and negative social interaction

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

6 to 10 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • children and their nutritional gatekeeper

Exclusion criteria

  • food allergies
  • participants follow special diet

Trial design

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Crossover Assignment

Masking

Triple Blind

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Longer meal duration
Experimental group
Description:
Families eat longer as they usually do
Treatment:
Behavioral: Longer meal duration
Usual meal duration
No Intervention group
Description:
Families eat as long as they usually do

Trial contacts and locations

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