Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children

Description

Scientific knowledge of the cognitive-developmental processes that serve to support children's appetite self-regulation are surprisingly limited. This investigation will provide new scientific directions for obesity prevention by elucidating cognitive-developmental influences on young children's ability to make healthy food choices and eat in moderation.

Conditions

Self-regulation, Appetitive Behavior, Eating Behavior, Child Obesity

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Study overview

Scientific knowledge of the cognitive-developmental processes that serve to support children's appetite self-regulation are surprisingly limited. This investigation will provide new scientific directions for obesity prevention by elucidating cognitive-developmental influences on young children's ability to make healthy food choices and eat in moderation.

Characterizing Top-down Dimensions of Appetite Self-regulation Among Preschoolers

Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children

Condition
Self-regulation
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Philadelphia

Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19140

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Child ages 4 to 6 years of age
  • 2. Caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare
  • 3. Caregiver legal guardian
  • 1. Caregiver \<18 years of age
  • 2. Child major food allergies
  • 3. Child medication use, developmental disability, or medical conditions known to affect food intake and/or growth; color blindness
  • 4. Child in foster care

Ages Eligible for Study

4 Years to 6 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Temple University,

Jennifer O Fisher, PHD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Temple University

Study Record Dates

2025-05-31