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Maternal Emotions and Diet in Pregnancy

NCT03278392 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 38

Last updated 2021-05-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study seeks to understand how a mother's emotional state in pregnancy influences her biological response to food intake.

Conditions

  • Pregnancy Related
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Glucose Intolerance During Pregnancy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Trier Social Stress Test

Task instructions provided to subject (5mins), subject prepares speech on their strengths and weaknesses (5 mins), subject delivers speech before a stern evaluative committee while being video-taped (5 mins), subject completes a mental arithmetic challenge task before the evaluative committee with critiques if errors are made (5mins).

BEHAVIORAL

Placebo Non-stress task

Subject engages in a friendly conversation about a neutral or happy topic (e.g. recent holiday, favorite past-times) for 15 minutes with a familiar research staff member.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Karen L Lindsay · UC Irvine

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-17
Primary Completion
2020-05-01
Completion
2021-05-10

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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