NCT05768685Completed
The Experience of Affective Touch in Obesity
The Experience of Affective Touch in Obesity: the Role of Social Anhedonia and Lifespan Experiences
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Aug 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The aim of the present research is to verify if the pleasantness of affective touch is comparable between women with obesity and healthy women, while measuring the level of social anhedonia and the lifespan experience of affective touch.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 60 (actual)
- First submitted
- 22 Feb 2023
- Start date
- Oct 2021
- Primary completion date
- Oct 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT05768685
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 60
- From Oct 2021 to the primary completion date, Oct 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- Concurrent neurological, neurodevelopmental (e.g., autism), motor, somatosensory and/or psychiatric disorders
Other illness
- Evidence of any skin-related condition possibly affecting sensitivity on the participants' forearm (e.g., eczema, scars).
Who the study is looking for
- right-handed;
- diagnosis of obesity (i.e., the level of body mass index (BMI( greater than or equal to 30).
Age in the registry: 18 years to 50 years · Sex: Female · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano - Ospedale San Giuseppe Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Piancavallo | Italy | Unknown status |
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