NCT03468257

Testing a Novel Stress-induced Eating Intervention for Cancer Prevention

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Subjects will be enrolled in a stress-induced eating intervention with 5, 7, or 9 treatments or control. Treatment will comprise imagining a stressful event, engaging in a stress relief activity (Progressive Muscle Relaxation), and consuming a fruit once per day. There will be one lab visit at baseline in which participants undergo an acute laboratory stressor (i.e., speech and math tasks) and consume food from a buffet. There will be another lab visit at two weeks post-intervention. In the second (and final) lab visit, participants will repeat the acute laboratory stressor (i.e., speech and math tasks) and buffet, and additionally complete questionnaires about their experience in the study.

Conditions

• 7-dose Control - Progressive Muscle Relaxation Only
• 5-dose - Pairs Progressive Muscle Relaxation With Fruit 5 Consecutive Days
• 7-dose - Pairs Progressive Muscle Relaxation With Fruit 7 Consecutive Days
• 9-dose - Pairs Progressive Muscle Relaxation With Fruit 9 Consecutive Days

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Pavlovian Conditioning	Imagining a stressful event, engaging in progressive muscle relaxation, and eating fruit

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-07-01
• Primary completion: 2021-05-01
• Completion: 2021-05-01
• First posted: 2018-03-16
• Last updated: 2024-03-08