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NCT Number: NCT03128476

Effects of Essence of Chicken on Physical Fatigue, Working Memory and Attention

In Southeast Asia, Essence of Chicken, a chicken-meat-extract, is a popular beverage and is consumed as a traditional remedy for several ailments, including the use as a nutritional supplement for sickness, enhancement of mental efficiency, and recovery from mental fatigue. While the elderly use it as a nutritional supplement, students use it for relief from anxiety during exam times.

The present study is conducted in order to assess the effects of BEC on various physical and mental parameters including physical fatigue, working memory and attention, mood and stress, in comparison to placebo.

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Key information

Conditions

Healthy Subjects Fatigue Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms

Age range

18 year–45 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Normal BMI
  • Not continuously taken Essence of Chicken for the last 3 months
  • Physical and psychological fatigue inclusion criteria/test/cutoff using CFQ (where individuals' CFQ scores 4 or above)

Exclusion criteria

  • Suffering from chronic or malignant diseases e.g. cancer, heart, liver, renal or other metabolic diseases.
  • Any psychiatric or neurological disease
  • Pregnant and lactating women
  • Subjects participated in any investigational drug trial within 4 weeks before screening
  • Consumption of food supplement in the previous 2 weeks
  • Professional athletes
  • Subjects with recent lifestyle changes in the past 4 weeks
  • History of allergy to chicken meat and seafood

Treatment and study plan

Essence of Chicken

Dietary Supplement

Brand's Essence of Chicken (BEC) is produced via a water extraction process from chicken meat for several hours under high-temperature, followed by centrifugation to remove fat and cholesterol, vacuum concentration to 3- to 4-fold, sterilization by high temperature and pressure before bottling. This kind of chicken essence is rich in protein, and low in sugar and fat, conveniently available and consumable, and easy for household storage.

Placebo (Energy matched)

Dietary Supplement

Primary outcomes

  1. Fatigue-vitality

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Psychometric tests SF-36 (score 100%)

  2. Physical fatigue

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire (score 0-33)

  3. Attention

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Stroop (mean latency and proportion correct)

  4. Sustained attention

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Sustained Attention to Response Task (mean latency and % of correct trials)

  5. Working memory

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Digit Span test (Maximal FORWARD digit span and Maximal BACKWARD digit span, etc)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Mood

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    POMS brief is used as a psychometric test to measure mood (6 domains).

  2. Stress

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    DASS is used as a psychometric test to measure stress (score 0-42).

  3. Adverse effects

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Comparison of adverse events on IP and placebo groups.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Sprim Advanced Life Sciences

Other

Collaborators

  • Cerebos

Registry information

Official study title

Effects of the Supplementation of Essence of Chicken on Physical Fatigue and Brain Functions Such as Working Memory and Attention Among Healthy Adults

Important dates

Study start
2016
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2017
First posted
Apr 25, 2017
Registry last updated
Apr 25, 2017

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