NCT06108128Completed
Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children
Characterizing Top-down Dimensions of Appetite Self-regulation Among Preschoolers
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Scientific knowledge of the cognitive-developmental processes that serve to support children's appetite self-regulation are surprisingly limited. This investigation will provide new scientific directions for obesity prevention by elucidating cognitive-developmental influences on young children's ability to make healthy food choices and eat in moderation.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 104 (actual)
- First submitted
- 24 Oct 2023
- Start date
- 5 Oct 2023
- Primary completion date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Temple University
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT06108128
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 104
- From 5 Oct 2023 to the primary completion date, 29 Jun 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- Child major food allergies
- Child medication use, developmental disability, or medical conditions known to affect food intake and/or growth; color blindness
Age
- Caregiver \<18 years of age
Other
- Child in foster care
Who the study is looking for
- Child ages 4 to 6 years of age
- Caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare
- Caregiver legal guardian
Age in the registry: 4 years to 6 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Unknown status |
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