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Satiation Study With Children Attending a Tertiary Feeding Clinic

NCT04851327 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 17

Last updated 2022-04-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a pilot study of children attending the Glasgow feeding clinic (GFC) which looks after children with severe feeding problems who commonly have low appetite and extreme thinness. The investigators want to find out if thin children respond to food in the same way, using an established method to assess energy compensation.

Conditions

  • Undernutrition
  • Underweight

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

High Energy preload

Tests the extent to which participants reduce their intake at a meal following ingestion of a high energy preload drink

BEHAVIORAL

Low energy preload

Tests the amount participants eat at a meal following ingestion of a low energy preload drink

BEHAVIORAL

Test meal

Test meal to follow low or high energy preload

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Stirling

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Ghana

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Glasgow

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Charlotte M Wright, MD · University of Glasgow

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Year
Max Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-01
Primary Completion
2021-08-31
Completion
2021-08-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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