Clinical trials: Feeding Behavior
Obesity, Overweight
Mobile Attention Retraining in Overweight Female Adolescents
Background: People are constantly exposed to unhealthy foods. Some studies of adults show that training attention away from unhealthy foods might reduce overeating.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Overweight, Binge Eating, Healthy Volunteers
- Trial name
- NCT02977403
- Testing
- Attention Bias Retraining
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
HIV Prevention
Supporting Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Decision Making Among Pregnant Women in Lilongwe, Malawi
Purpose: The overall objective of this pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of a shared decision-making (SDM) intervention to support personally appropriate decision making about PrEP use…
- Trial name
- NCT06394323
- Testing
- Behavioral: My Choice for HIV Prevention (MyChoice)
- Where
- Malawi
- Volunteers
- 132 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Contraception, Postpartum Depression
Timing of Postpartum Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Administration on Breastfeeding, Contraceptive Continuation, and Depression
The investigators plan to enroll 184 women who are planning to breastfeed and use DMPA after delivery to find out whether the timing of postpartum administration of DMPA (prior to hospital discharge or 4-6 weeks after delivery)…
- Conditions
- Contraception, Postpartum Depression, Lactation
- Trial name
- DEPO-ABCD (NCT01463202)
- Testing
- Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 184 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Beatrice Chen
Time Restricted Feeding
Time Restricted Eating Pilot - Bariatrics
Bariatric surgery patients have a variable course of weight loss, maintenance and regain. Time restricted eating is an approach that may help individuals lose weight and improve metabolic functioning.
- Trial name
- NCT04006366
- Testing
- Time restricted feeding
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Exclusive Breastfeeding, Co-production of Health in Communities
A Mobile-health Pilot Experiment Targeting Mothers With Newborns in Rural Areas of San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala
The purpose of this study was to determine whether exposure to m-health platforms promoting recommended breastfeeding practices was effective in transmitting the exclusive breastfeeding message to participant mothers, and in…
- Trial name
- NCT02263118
- Testing
- Uni-directional SMS, Feature phone, Virtual communities
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Pain
Caring for Babies During the Newborn Screening Blood Test
Newborn infants have blood work procedures in their first days of life that cause pain, distress and physiological changes. Breastfeeding (BF), skin to skin care (SSC), or giving sweet solutions (sucrose or glucose) has been…
- Trial name
- NCT02608892
- Testing
- BSweet2Babies video
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Obstetric Pain, Postpartum Depression
Ketamine to Improve Recovery After Cesarean Delivery - Part 1
The objective of this study is evaluate the breastmilk transfer and pharmacokinetics (Part 1) and effectiveness (Part 2) of a post-cesarean delivery intravenous ketamine bolus-and-infusion strategy, as a preventive analgesic…
- Conditions
- Obstetric Pain, Postpartum Depression, Breastfeeding, Pain, Acute
- Trial name
- KINETIC (NCT04037085)
- Testing
- Ketamine
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Grace Lim, MD, MS
Postpartum Contraception, Family Planning
Labor and Delivery Implant Insertion: A Randomized Controlled Trial
A barrier to initiating progestin contraceptives in the early postpartum period is the concern of interference with breastfeeding, specifically lactogenesis.
- Trial name
- LADII (NCT02866643)
- Testing
- Etonogestrel-Immediate, Etonogestrel-Delayed
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 95 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Diet Habit
Dietary Assessment Study Via Digital Images
The purpose of this investigation is to validate a passive image-assisted dietary assessment method using images taken by Sony Smarteyeglass and an automatic image analysis software, DietCam, to identify food items and estimate…
- Trial name
- NCT03267004
- Testing
- Dietary Assessment of Meal A using images taken by Sony Smarteyeglass, Dietary Assessment of Meal B using Images taken by Sony Smarteyeglass
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Overweight, Obesity
Toddler Overweight Prevention Study Among Low-Income Families
The hypothesis is that toddlers with parents who are randomized to a parenting intervention and toddlers with parents who are randomized to the maternal intervention focused on maternal diet and physical activity will be more…
- Conditions
- Overweight, Obesity, Depression
- Trial name
- TOPS (NCT02615158)
- Testing
- Maternal Physical Activity and Nutrition, Parenting, Child Safety
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 277 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
Food Selection, Nutrition
Food Swaps to Improve the Healthfulness and Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Grocery Purchases
The study aims to determine whether viewing health or climate labels (or both) and receiving recommendations for healthier or more climate-friendly swaps (or both) in an online grocery store environment improves the healthfulness…
- Conditions
- Food Selection, Nutrition, Food Preferences, Dietary Habits
- Trial name
- NCT06648226
- Testing
- Health swaps, Climate swaps, Combined health and climate swaps
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,201 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Obesity, Eating Behavior
Influence of a Monopoly Game on Subtle Behaviors
This project will investigate the influence of experimentally manipulated perceived social standing on eating behavior and obesity risk.
- Trial name
- NCT02470949
- Testing
- Low Social Status, High Social Status
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Increased Breastfeeding
Texting to Promote Breastfeeding (TOPS)
The purpose of the study is to see if a program of text messages that support and promote breastfeeding for expecting and delivered African-American/Black women (called TEAM2BF), as compared to a national maternal health texting…
- Trial name
- NCT06375655
- Testing
- Team2BF, Bright By Text
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 83 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Case Western Reserve University
Breast Feeding, Exclusive
Childhood Risk Reduction Program in Hispanics
Childhood obesity is a serious problem in the United States, as it increases the risk for various cardiometabolic, pulmonary, and psychosocial complications for children, which often continue into adulthood.
- Trial name
- ECOR-H (NCT03903146)
- Testing
- Early Childhood Obesity Risk-Reduction Program in Hispanics
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ana Maria Linares
Breast Feeding, Analgesia Obstetrical
Intravenous Dexmedetomidine for Cesarean Section
Nervous, anxiety, fear and other psychological reactions always appears in parturients during cesarean section. This study intends to investigate the effectiveness and safety of dexmedetomidine combined with butorphanol tartrate…
- Conditions
- Breast Feeding, Analgesia Obstetrical, Postoperative Pain
- Trial name
- NCT03065530
- Testing
- Normal Saline, Dexmedetomidine 0.03ug/kg/h, Dexmedetomidine 0.05ug/kg/h
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University
Retention
Oral Health Literacy and Oral Education
This is study aims to evaluate the retention of information on oral health and eating habits in children under two years of age.
- Trial name
- NCT02436811
- Testing
- Written form instruction, Standardized oral instruction, Control
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidade Federal do Paraná
Corona Virus Infection, Pregnancy Related
Understanding COVID-19 Infection in Pregnant Women and Their Babies
This national study will recruit expectant mothers with and without positive nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS-CoV-2, and aims to determine the seroepidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 amongst expectant mothers and their infants in the U.K.
- Conditions
- Corona Virus Infection, Pregnancy Related, Neonatal Infection, Breastfeeding
- Trial name
- periCOVID (NCT04703270)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 881 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- St George's, University of London
Intrauterine Devices
Study on Medical Records of Women Using an Intrauterine Device (IUD) to Analyze the Risks That the IUD Will be Expelled or Perforates the Womb in Relation to Breastfeeding, the Point in Time When the IUD Was Inserted After Childbirth and in Relation to Different Types of IUDs
Study to analyze electronic medical records of women using an intrauterine device (IUD). The study was required by the FDA for the marketed IUD Mirena (US Post-marketing requirement; short name of study: APEX IUD).
- Trial name
- APEX IUD (NCT03754556)
- Testing
- Intrauterine device
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 326,658 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bayer
Breastfeeding, Bottle Feeding
Breast Versus Bottle Study
The objective of the proposed research is to conduct a within-subject experimental study that will assess the effect of feeding mode (breast- versus bottle-feeding) on the quality and outcome of infant feeding interactions.
- Trial name
- NCT03704051
- Testing
- Mode of Feeding (breastfeeding versus bottle-feeding)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 94 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Breast Feeding, Contraception
Breastfeeding and Oral Contraceptives: a Randomized, Controlled Trial
Objectives To clarify the relationship between postpartum (2 weeks) use of progestin-only vs. combined oral contraceptive pills and the outcomes of breastfeeding continuation, infant growth, contraceptive method continuation, and…
- Trial name
- NCT01465022
- Testing
- Combined estrogen-progestin pill, Progestin-only pill
- Volunteers
- 197 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of New Mexico