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Peer Interactions and Food Are Substitutable in Youth

NCT00875121 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL

Last updated 2009-05-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study examines the effects of increasing the cost of social interactions and food on overweight and non-overweight youth. Using a computerized operant task youth will earn points exchangeable for food and social activity.

The investigators predict that both overweight and non-overweight children will substitute food for interactions with an unfamiliar peer when this alternative is made expensive. Also, the investigators predict that both overweight and lean participants will defend their choice to spend time with a friend even when this alternative is made expensive.

Conditions

  • Activity Choices
  • Caloric Intake
  • Social Time

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University at Buffalo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sarah J Salvy, Ph.D. · University at Buffalo

Eligibility

Min Age
9 Years
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-10-31
Primary Completion
2008-12-31
Completion
2008-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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