NCT03278392

Maternal Emotions and Diet in Pregnancy

Prenatal Emotion-Diet Interactions and the Metabolic Response

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 38 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Irvine · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study seeks to understand how a mother's emotional state in pregnancy influences her biological response to food intake.

Detailed description

The purpose of this research study is to understand how a mother's emotional state in pregnancy influences her biological response to food intake. Natural variation in emotional and mental state is frequently experienced in daily life, including during pregnancy. While the investigators understand that a healthy diet is important in pregnancy for maintaining blood sugar levels and other metabolic factors within normal ranges for optimal development of the baby, less consideration is given to the health effects of a mother's mental state during pregnancy. It may even be possible that, regardless of what a woman eats or drinks, the way her body responds to food may differ according to her emotional or mental state. This research is particularly interested in understanding how the combination of maternal emotional state and diet influence metabolism in pregnancy. Thus, the aim of this study is to test whether and how an individual's emotional response to a mental challenge of varying complexity during pregnancy modifies the body's metabolic response to a standard breakfast.

Conditions

• Pregnancy Related
• Stress, Psychological
• Glucose Intolerance During Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Trier Social Stress Test	Task instructions provided to subject (5mins), subject prepares speech on their strengths and weaknesses (5 mins), subject delivers speech before a stern evaluative committee while being video-taped (5 mins), subject completes a mental arithmetic challenge task before the evaluative committee with critiques if errors are made (5mins).
BEHAVIORAL	Placebo Non-stress task	Subject engages in a friendly conversation about a neutral or happy topic (e.g. recent holiday, favorite past-times) for 15 minutes with a familiar research staff member.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-17
• Primary completion: 2020-05-01
• Completion: 2021-05-10
• First posted: 2017-09-11
• Last updated: 2021-05-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States