Active Video-game Playing and Food Intake in Children

Active Video-game Playing and a Glucose Preload on Food Intake Regulation in Children

The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the effect of active 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 active video game playing. Subjective appetite will be measured at 0, 15, 30 and 60 minutes.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Appetitive Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 27
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Canada
  • Ontario
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 2K3
      • School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 9 years to 14 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

healthy boys with no emotional, behavioral or learning problems

Exclusion Criteria:

• Exclusion criteria are children with significant behavioral or emotional difficulties, those with dietary restrictions, or those taking medications.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

4

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Glucose Beverage; 50 g of glucose in solution	Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing
Experimental: Control Beverage; Sucralose in solution	Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing
Experimental: Glucose beverage and active video game playing; 50 g of glucose in solution and 30 min of active video game playing	Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing
Experimental: Control Beverage and active video game playing; Sucralose in solution and 30 min of active video game playing	Behavioral: Glucose beverage, control beverage, glucose beverage and active video game playing, control beverage and active video game playing

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Food Intake (kcal)		30 minutes after treatment
Subjective appetite (mm)	subjective appetite assessed by motivation-to-eat visual analogue scale. The scale range is between 0 and 100 mm. Higher scores represent higher appetite	baseline and then 15, 30, and 60 minutes after preload consumption

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Subjective Mood (mm)	Measured using visual analogue scale (mm). Each VAS is a 100 mm line where they will place a pencil mark to describe their feelings.	baseline and then 15, 30, and 60 minutes after preload consumption

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ryerson University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 6, 2012
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 25, 2015
• Study Completion (Actual): May 25, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 25, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 25, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): October 26, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 29, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 25, 2018
• Last Verified: October 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: appetite, food intake, active gaming
• Other Study ID Numbers: REB: 2012-120-1

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED
• IPD Plan Description: Data will be shared upon request.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No