NCT06072651

Mother-Baby Study - Relative Reinforcing Value (RRV)

Fundamental Biobehavioral Mechanisms Underlying the Integrated Development of Emotion, Attachment, and Nutritive Intake in the Mother-Infant Dyad

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study will test a model of biobehavioral mechanisms involved in the development of a system of emotion, attachment, and nutritive intake in the mother-infant dyad and the association of this system with maternal feeding behavior, child eating behavior, dietary intake, and adiposity. To participate in this study the infant must also be enrolled in long-term observational study, NCT06039878.

Detailed description

This interventional task is done with children while they are in the long-term observational study, NCT06039878, at approximately ages 18 and 36 months. In the observational study there are 300 participants (150 mothers and 150 children). In this trial only data from the children is collected and therefore only 150 participants are listed.

Conditions

• Eating Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Relative Reinforcing Value of Food	Researcher gives child opportunity to press a button to earn three types of rewards: a high-reward food, a low-reward food, and a non-food reward.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-21
• Primary completion: 2028-01-01
• Completion: 2028-01-01
• First posted: 2023-10-10
• Last updated: 2025-10-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States