Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02948816
The Effects of Social Media on Food Intake and Behaviour
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 10 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Prince Edward Island · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 25 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Participants will be exposed to 3 conditions, in random order: 1. A Facebook page where 70% of posts are related to food. 2. A Facebook page where only 20% of posts are related to food. 3. A control condition (colouring quietly). During each of the above conditions participants will be provided with identical snacks. The snacks will be weighed before and after each condition, to determine whether there is a change in food intake across the 3 conditions.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Participants will spend 30 minutes on a Facebook page that is primarily non-food related posts. | |
| BEHAVIORAL | Facebook + Food | Participants will spend 30 minutes on a Facebook page that is food related posts. |
| BEHAVIORAL | Colouring | Participants will spend 30 minutes colouring quietly. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-04-01
- Completion
- 2017-08-01
- First posted
- 2016-10-28
- Last updated
- 2017-10-26
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Canada
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02948816. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.