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Emotion-Diet Interactions in Pregnancy

NCT04430439 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 113

Last updated 2025-08-22

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Summary

This study will investigate how maternal emotional state following a controlled stress exposure in pregnancy influences blood glucose and insulin levels after eating a standardized meal, and whether the effects of emotional state on blood glucose and insulin is different after eating a healthy meal (low GI) compared to a less healthy meal (high GI).

Conditions

  • Pregnancy Related
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Glucose Intolerance During Pregnancy
  • Emotional Stress
  • Postprandial Hyperglycemia
  • Insulin Sensitivity/Resistance

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychosocial stress

The TSST is a 15 minute standardized lab-based challenge task that involves speech preparation, speech delivery while being evaluated by strangers and video taped, and complex mental arithmetic with critiques if errors are made.

BEHAVIORAL

Control non-stress

Participants will have a relaxed 15 minute conversation with a familiar research team member.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of California, Irvine

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-11
Primary Completion
2024-02-14
Completion
2024-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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