COMPLETED

Toddler Tastes Study

Study Overview

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Description

The goal of this study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of two food preference learning approaches for toddlers that could serve as alternatives to mere repeated exposure to new or previously disliked foods. The target population is toddlers who score higher on food fussiness. The study is a two-group randomized controlled trial. Families will be randomized to 1 of 2 study groups: associative conditioning, or the child tasting vegetables alongside a palatable dip, or modeling, in which the child and parent taste vegetables together. Both groups will attend two laboratory visits, one before and one after a 4-week exposure period, and will be asked to complete 8 vegetable tastings in accordance with their assigned condition across the 4 intervention weeks. Key questions to be addressed are: * summarizing the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention strategies * assessing whether children's liking and intake of the target food increase from baseline to post-intervention

Official Title

Developing Tailored Clinical Resources for Promoting Children's Healthy Food Preferences

Quick Facts

Study Start:2025-03-19
Study Completion:2025-07-29
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:COMPLETED

Study ID

NCT06877468

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:18 Months
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Child is 18-36 months old
  2. * Parent/guardian is 18 years of age or older
  3. * Parent/guardian participating is the primary caregiver of the child
  4. * Child is not diagnosed with a physical or mental health condition (e.g., allergies to study foods, ARFID or autism diagnosis) that would impact safe or feasible participation
  5. * Participants are English speakers
  6. * Child is high on food fussiness, defined as a 2.5 or above on the food fussiness scale of the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire for toddlers
  1. * The child is outside the age range of 18-36 months at enrollment, as verified by birth date
  2. * Child is diagnosed with a physical or mental health condition that precludes safe or feasible participation
  3. * The parent/guardian is less than 18 years old
  4. * The parent/guardian participating is not the primary caregiver of the child
  5. * Participants are not English speakers
  6. * Child is low on food fussiness, defined as below a 2.5 on the food fussiness scale of the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire for toddlers

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations (Sites)

Child Health and Behavior Lab at the University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York, 14214
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: State University of New York at Buffalo

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2025-03-19
Study Completion Date2025-07-29

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2025-03-19
Study Completion Date2025-07-29

Terms related to this study

Keywords Provided by Researchers

  • food preferences
  • toddlers
  • associative conditioning
  • modeling
  • food fussiness
  • vegetable acceptance
  • dietary intake

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Dietary Behavior