The Protective Effect of Friendship on Peer Rejection in Overweight and Normal Weight Youth

University at Buffalo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Exclusion; Control

Treatments: Behavioral: Ostracism

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01324661

3857

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study examines youth's motivation for food or social rewards after a brief episode of simulated ostracism. The investigators hypothesize that youth who think about a friend after being ostracized will mediate their decision to resort to food, which is typically evidenced in socially isolated overweight youth.

Enrollment: 104 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• General liking for all study foods

Exclusion criteria

• Food allergies
• Medical or Psychological disorders

Trial design

104 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Individuals who receive the ball during a computerized ball tossing game about the same number of times as the other players in the game.

Ostracism

Other group

Description:

Participant would receive the ball of a ball-tossing game once or twice in the beginning and then never again for the duration of the game.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ostracism