NCT05217589

The Influence of Different Mood States and Emotions on the Physiologic, Metabolic, and Perceptual Responses to Feeding Before Exercise

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Old Dominion University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Many athletes anecdotally report modifying their nutritional intake before competition in order to avoid gut problems, but no studies have evaluated whether emotional state impacts tolerance to pre-exercise feeding. Therefore, this study will use movie clips (stressful, horror, and funny/amusing) to induce different mood states and emotions, which will be followed by ingestion of food before endurance running on a treadmill. In addition, metabolic and physiologic responses to mood induction will be evaluated.

Conditions

• Other Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Cramp, Abdominal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Funny/Amusing Video Clips	Participants watch 5-7 minutes of video clips that are funny/amusing in nature
OTHER	Horror/Scary Video Clips	Participants watch 5-7 minutes of video clips that are scary in nature
OTHER	Thrilling/Suspenseful Video Clips	Participants watch 5-7 minutes of video clips that are thrilling/suspenseful in nature

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-01
• Primary completion: 2025-12-01
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2022-02-01
• Last updated: 2025-03-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States