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The Protective Effect of Friendship on Peer Rejection in Overweight and Normal Weight Youth

NCT01324661 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 104

Last updated 2011-09-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study examines youth's motivation for food or social rewards after a brief episode of simulated ostracism. The investigators hypothesize that youth who think about a friend after being ostracized will mediate their decision to resort to food, which is typically evidenced in socially isolated overweight youth.

Conditions

  • Social Exclusion
  • Control

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Ostracism

Participants would received the ball of a computerized ball-tossing game once or twice in the beginning and then never again for the duration of the game.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University at Buffalo

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-12-31
Primary Completion
2010-08-31
Completion
2010-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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