Time Restricted Eating, Eating Behaviors, and Cardiometabolic Risk in Emerging Adult Women

University of Delaware

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Behavior; Time Restricted Eating; Nutrition, Healthy; Diet, Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Time restricted eating

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06145009

2089190-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess how time restricted eating interventions impact eating behaviors, diet quality, and body composition in women ages 20-29 years. Participants will be asked to limit all food and drinks (except water and some non-caloric beverages) to a 10-hour period during the day for four weeks. Participants 1-36 will follow their usual eating and activity patterns for one week before starting, and follow whatever eating pattern they want for 4 weeks after finishing. Participants 37-51 will follow their usual eating and activity patterns for one week before starting, and will not complete a follow up period.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Able to speak and read English
• Own a smartphone
• BMI ≥ 20 kg/m2
• Usual eating window ≥ 12 hours with the last eating occasion after 8pm on the majority of days
• Have at least a moderate baseline level of dietary restraint

Exclusion criteria

• Shift workers
• Being pregnant, nursing, or planning to become pregnant in the next 6 months
• Having a past or current eating disorder diagnosis
• Having a chronic medical condition (including diabetes, heart, kidney, or thyroid disease) or a condition that requires therapeutic diet or specified meal timing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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51 participants in 1 patient group

Time Restricted Eating

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will limit their eating (all food and caloric beverages) to an eating window of 10 hours per day for 4 weeks. The eating window must end by 8pm. Water and non-caloric beverages are allowed outside of the eating window. No other changes are required to the types or total amount of food eaten.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Time restricted eating