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Genetic Risk, Parental Feeding Practices, and Appetitive Traits in Early Life

RecruitingNAAges 27 Months - 72 MonthsAllTrustees of Dartmouth College
NCT06534541 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

The preschool years (2-5 years of age) is a critical timeframe to shape the lifetime risk of obesity. While the causes of obesity are complex, appetitive traits related to overeating, such as high food approach and low food avoidance, are robustly associated with a greater BMI among children. Some children are genetically pre-disposed to expressing obesogenic appetitive traits, and those traits may mediate a genetic risk for obesity. Separately, parental feeding practices are emerging as an important, yet modifiable, influence on children's obesity risk. Coercive control feeding practices, such as strictly limiting a child's intake of highly palatable foods (restriction) and using food to control children's negative emotions (emotional feeding), are believed to be detrimental for young children because they impede self-regulatory skills around eating and may increase the saliency of high

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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * parent must be ≥18 years old, have primary custody of their child for ≥75% of the month, comprehend verbal and written English and not plan to move out of Vermont or New Hampshire during the study timeframe. * Children must be ≥2.25 and ≤2.99 years old at first visit and have normal or corrected-to-normal vision to enable eye tracking. Exclusion Criteria: * Children with any relevant food allergies or dietary restrictions, taking medication or with a medical condition that affects appetite or attention, or with a relative enrolled in the study will be excluded.
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What it tests

  • Attentional bias to food cues
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Where

1 site
Dartmotuh College
Hanover, United States
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