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NCT Number: NCT03255304

Influence of Priming on Goal-directed and Cue-dependent Behavior

The current proposal aims to investigate implicit and explicit priming paradigms for changing cue-dependent and goal-directed nutritional behavior.

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Key information

Conditions

Eating Behavior Behavior Behavior, Animal Feeding Behavior Habits

Age range

20 year–50 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Tübingen

Tübingen, Germany

About this study

Food choice and intake is a daily and throughout normal subject. However, for more and more people eating habits and the question of food choice are of increasing interest and in several cases even a problem. The prevalence of obesity has tripled in the last decades and it is even spoken of an obesity epidemic. Life style interventions to lose weight often fail on the long run, also because people fall back into former unhealthy eating habits. Various factors influence our daily food choice, not all of which are apparent to ourselves. Thus, food choice might be goal-directed and therefore conscious and reflective, yet in other circumstances the choice to eat something specific might be based on cue dependent processes which are automatic and thus difficult to control. Since a change in eating-behavior and long-lasting weight loss is most problematic to achieve, the current proposal aims to investigate implicit and explicit priming paradigms for changing cue-dependent and goal-directed nutritional behavior.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • healthy volunteers

Exclusion criteria

  • currently dieting
  • intolerance to provided food
  • cognitive impairment

Treatment and study plan

health mindest

Behavioral

groups be confronted with health aspects of food items

palatability mindset

Behavioral

groups be confronted with palatability aspects of food items

Primary outcomes

  1. behavior

    Time frame: pre and post priming (directly before and directly after a 5 minutes priming paradigm)

    change in food choice within a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task (duration of complete protocol about 45 minutes, including priming (5 minutes) and pre and post measurements)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University Hospital Tuebingen

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Aug 21, 2017
Registry last updated
Nov 27, 2019

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