Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00875511
Effects of a Computer Game on Activity Choices
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 40 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University at Buffalo · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 50 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The study seeks to discover whether peer rejection increases the value of food relative to peer interaction in overweight individuals. After playing a computer game that randomly simulates peer rejection or peer acceptance, participants will play another computer game that will assess the value of food and social interactions. Overweight individuals may be more likely to resort to food in moments of distress and less likely to choose to interact with a peer to reestablish their sense of belongingness.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2008-11-01
- Completion
- 2009-09-01
- First posted
- 2009-04-03
- Last updated
- 2010-06-28
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00875511. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.