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NCT Number: NCT03127579

Family Meal Duration and Children's Eating Behavior

The goal of this study is to test whether a longer meal duration could improve the diet quality of children. To answer this question we want to take an experimental approach by implementing a longer family meal duration to examine differences in children's eating behavior. The family dinner within a laboratory setting will be video taped and the main outcome is children's fruit and vegetables consumption.

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Key information

Conditions

Feeding Behavior Behavior Behavior, Animal Child Behavior Eating Family Relations

Age range

6 year–10 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Berlin, 14195, Germany

About this study

Parent-child pairs have two dinner in a laboratory setting. The study design is a within-subject design: In the control condition they have as much time as they usual. In the intervention condition they have 50% more time than usual. Order of the two condition is counter balanced. The lab dinner reflects a typical German dinner which consists of bread, cheese, cold meat and fruits and vegetables. Additionally a dessert is served after the main meal. The foods served reflect food preferences of the child. All dinners are video taped. Key outcome variables are consumption of fruits and vegetables, dessert, eating rate and amount time engaged in positive and negative social interaction

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • children and their nutritional gatekeeper

Exclusion criteria

  • food allergies
  • participants follow special diet

Treatment and study plan

Longer meal duration

Behavioral

Participants have 50% more time to eat than usual

Primary outcomes

  1. Food consumption

    Time frame: Food intake is measured during the lab meal

    The lab dinner is video taped. Consumption of fruits, vegetables, bread, cheese, cold meat and dessert (cookies or pudding), drinks (water, or milk, or juice) are coded by two independent rater.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Social interactions: positive and negative communication

    Time frame: Social interaction is measured during the lab meal

    The lab dinner is video taped. Social interactions are coded according to the ABC family mealtime coding system by Fiese, Winter & Botti, 2011.

  2. Eating rate

    Time frame: From the start to the end of the meal (about 20-30 minutes)

    Bites per minute coded from video tapes

  3. Hunger

    Time frame: Participants filled out a questionnaire 5 minutes after the lab dinner

    Hunger rating scale (ranging from 1= I am really hungry to 5 = I am not hungry at all)

  4. Atmosphere

    Time frame: Participants filled out a questionnaire 5 minutes after the lab dinner

    Atmosphere rating scale (ranging from 1= very negative to 5 = very positive)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Other

Collaborators

  • University of Mannheim

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2016
Primary completion
2017
Study completion
2017
First posted
Apr 25, 2017
Registry last updated
Jun 30, 2022

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