Video Game Playing on Lunch-time Food Intake in Children

Toronto Metropolitan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Exogenous Obesity

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Control Beverage; Dietary Supplement: Glucose Beverage; Behavioral: Video Game Playing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01750151

REB 2012-120-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the effect of video game playing for 30 minutes on food intake and subjective appetite. The investigators hypothesize that video game playing will affect food intake in children. Food intake will be measured at 30 minutes following a glucose (50g glucose in 250ml of water) or sweetened non-caloric (150mg Sucralose® in 250ml of water) beverage with or without video game playing. Subjective appetite will be measured at 0, 20, 35 and 65 minutes.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 9 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy boys with no emotional, behavioral or learning problems

Exclusion criteria

• girls

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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41 participants in 4 patient groups

Glucose beverage

Experimental group

Description:

Glucose beverage

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Glucose Beverage

Control beverage and video game playing

Experimental group

Description:

Control beverage and video game playing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video Game Playing

Glucose beverage and video game playing

Experimental group

Description:

Glucose beverage and video game playing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video Game Playing

Control beverage

Experimental group

Description:

Control beverage

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Control Beverage