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NCT Number: NCT04780763

Effect of 4-week Oral Administration of a Fermented Dairy Product Containing Lactobacillus Rhamnosus CNCM I-3690, on Subjective State Anxiety Levels in Healthy Women Undergoing Academic Stress.

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus CNCM I-3690 consumption on subjective anxiety levels in healthy subjects undergoing academic stress.

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Key information

Age range

20 year–30 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

UZ/KU Leuven

Leuven, 3000, Belgium

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • SI01: Free-living Participant who fully understands and agree to the objectives of the study, who gave signed and dated informed consent
  • SI02: Women of 20 to 30 years of age inclusive
  • SI03: Participants who are healthy as determined by medical evaluation including medical and surgical history and full physical examination.
  • SI04: Body mass index (BMI) within the range 18 and 30 kg/m2 (bounds included).
  • SI05: Woman participants.
  • SI06: Student defending a bachelor's or master's thesis in front of a jury
  • SI07: Subject who regularly consumes dairy fermented products containing live bacteria and willing to consume 2 units of investigational product per day during the study.
  • SI08: Subject willing to strictly follow instructions on diet, medication and substance use for the entire duration of the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • SE01: subject with chronic gastrointestinal disorders or symptoms, with celiac disease, diagnosed type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus, with psychiatric disease including but not limited to depression and general anxiety disorder
  • SE03: subject with food allergy, history of atopic conditions (eczema, allergic asthma, allergic rhino conjunctivitis) requiring active treatment, with first degree relatives with coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or type 1 diabetes, with known or suspected lactose intolerance
  • SE4: Subject with eating disorders, chronic or iatrogenic immunodeficiency (e.g. Chemotherapy, HIV), presenting a severe evolutive or chronic pathology (e.g. cancer, tuberculosis, Crohn's disease, cirrhosis, multiple sclerosis)
  • SE5: Subject with cardiac, respiratory (including asthma) or renal insufficiency, cardiomyopathy, valvulopathy and medical history of rheumatic fever and/or with a positive test for COVID-19 infection or presenting any symptoms of COVID infection in the past 2 weeks
  • SE6: Subject receiving systemic treatment or topical treatment likely to interfere with evaluation of the study parameters (antibiotics, intestinal or respiratory antiseptics, anti-rheumatics, and steroids prescribed in chronic inflammatory diseases, antiphlogistic, anti-inflammatory and PPIs)
  • SE7: Subject who has planned to participate in another investigational study OR subject involved in any other clinical study within the preceding month
  • SE8: Subjects planning to significantly change their diet during the period of the study or who have changed his/her dietary habits within the 4 weeks preceding the study (e.g. start of a diet high in fibres)
  • SE9: Pregnant woman or woman planning to become pregnant during the study; breast-feeding woman.

Treatment and study plan

Milk product fermented by lactic bacteria or not fermented

Other

2 bottles of 100g consumed daily during 28 days

Primary outcomes

  1. Comparison between groups of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)-state questionnaire score during 4 weeks of investigational product consumption.

    Time frame: At Baseline and after stress challenge (4 weeks after baseline).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Comparison between groups of cortisol level in saliva, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) questionnaire score and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) during 4 weeks of investigational product consumption.

    Time frame: At Baseline and after stress challenge (4 weeks from baseline).

  2. Comparison between groups of sleep efficiency, total sleep time, and deep sleep (Non-REM 3 sleep cycle) duration, during 4 weeks of investigational product consumption.

    Time frame: At Baseline and at stress challenge (4 weeks from baseline).

  3. Comparison between groups of Bond-Lader visual analogue scale (VAS) score during 4 weeks of investigational product consumption.

    Time frame: At Baseline and at stress challenge (4 weeks from baseline).

  4. Comparison between groups of cortisol levels in saliva after 4 weeks of investigational product consumption.

    Time frame: Time course of cortisol secretion on the day of the stress challenge (5 timepoints).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Danone Global Research & Innovation Center

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

Effect of 4-week Oral Administration of a Fermented Dairy Product Containing Lactobacillus Rhamnosus CNCM I-3690, on Subjective State Anxiety Levels in Healthy Women Undergoing Academic Stress. A Proof-of-efficacy, Randomized, Controlled, Double-blind, Monocentric, Parallel Arms Design Study.

Acronym: Tara

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2021
First posted
Mar 3, 2021
Registry last updated
Mar 23, 2022

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