Clinical trial NCT00875576: Influence of Parents and Friends on Children and Adolescents
Official title: Influence of Parents and Friends on Children and Adolescents
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Healthy
Keywords: social influences
meals
obesity
amount of food consumed
Lead sponsor: University at Buffalo
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2009-04-03
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Boys and girls ages 5-6 yrs and 12-14 yrs and their mothers.

Brief summary: The objective of this study is to directly compare the effects of parents and friends on overweight and non-overweight children and adolescents' food intake and food selection using a cross-sectional design. Overweight and non-overweight children (5-6 year-old) and adolescents (13-14 year-old) will share a meal with a friend and with a parent on separate occasions. Participants' food selection and the amount of food they consumed will be compared across conditions.

Hypothesis 1: The investigators hypothesize that overweight children and adolescents will select more unhealthy food items and eat more in the presence of an overweight friend than when eating with a lean friend; whereas lean participants eating with an overweight friend will eat a similar amount of food than lean youth eating with a lean friend.

Hypothesis 2: The investigators predict that overweight children and adolescents (but not lean children and teens) will consume more food in the presence of their mother than in the presence of a friend.

Hypothesis 3: The investigators also predict that overweight youth's energy intake will be related to parental prompts.

Hypothesis 4: The investigators expect greater similarities in terms of food selection and food intake between adolescents and their friend than between adolescents and their parent.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Boys and girls ages 5-6 yrs and 12-14 yrs and their mothers
* Children must have a BMI greater than or equal to 15th percentile for their age
* Children and their mothers must have at least a moderate liking of the study foods used

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participants should not have any food allergies
* Participants should have no dietary restraints
* Participants should have no psychopathology that can limit food choice and alter eating
* Participants should have no developmental disabilities that can limit food choice and alter eating
* Participants cannot have a cold or upper respiratory distress that could influence taste, appetite or olfactory sensory responsiveness
* Participants cannot be on any medications that could influence taste, appetite or olfactory sensory responsiveness

Primary outcomes:
measure: amount of food consumed
timeFrame: Measured once with a friend and once with a mother, both occurring within a week of each other.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Buffalo
country: United States
facility: University at Buffalo, Division of Behavioral Medicine
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: University at Buffalo
name: Sarah J Salvy, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Salvy SJ, Elmo A, Nitecki LA, Kluczynski MA, Roemmich JN. Influence of parents and friends on children's and adolescents' food intake and food selection. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 Jan;93(1):87-92. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.110.002097. Epub 2010 Nov 3.