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Cortisol and Food Insecurity

NCT05191030 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 453

Last updated 2025-09-29

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Summary

This study will use a within-subjects design in a sample of individuals with a range of food insecurity recruited from the Los Angeles community (N = 400; 50% men). These participants will then, in counterbalanced order, be exposed to a gold-standard laboratory stressor and a control condition, one month apart. Moderation analyses will test whether cortisol reactivity to the stressor acts as a modulator of the relationship between high levels of food insecurity and increased hyperpalatable food intake.

Conditions

  • Food Insecurity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

High-Stress Intervention

Those undergoing the High-Stress will be exposed to a gold-standard laboratory stressor, the Trier Social Stress Test (Kirschbaum et al., 1993), which reliably induces cortisol reactivity in most individuals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • A. Janet Tomiyama, Ph.D. · University of California, Los Angeles

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-03-11
Primary Completion
2025-09-23
Completion
2025-09-23

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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