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Behavioural Intervention

Time Restricted Eating for Healthy Eating

N/A

Recruiting

Led By Carly Pacanowski, PhD

Research Sponsored by University of Delaware

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

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Must have

Be between 18 and 65 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up end of 9-week study (following 1-week baseline, 4-week intervention, and 4-week follow up)

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Study Summary

This trial will study how limiting food/drinks to 10h/day affects diet, eating habits, and body composition in women aged 20-29. Participants will record diet for 1wk before and after the 4wk trial.

Who is the study for?

This trial is for women aged 20-29 with a BMI of at least 23, who typically eat over a period longer than 12 hours and finish eating after 8pm. Participants must speak English, own a smartphone, and have some level of dietary restraint. It's not specified who can't join.Check my eligibility

What is being tested?

The study tests how limiting food intake to a 10-hour window affects eating habits, diet quality, and body composition in young adult women. This time restricted eating pattern will be followed for four weeks.See study design

What are the potential side effects?

Potential side effects are not detailed in the provided information but may include hunger outside of the eating window, changes in energy levels or mood due to altered meal timing.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ end of 9-week study (following 1-week baseline, 4-week intervention, and 4-week follow up)

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~end of 9-week study (following 1-week baseline, 4-week intervention, and 4-week follow up)

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and end of 9-week study (following 1-week baseline, 4-week intervention, and 4-week follow up) for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Eating in the Absence of Hunger

Emotional Eating

External Eating

Secondary outcome measures

Body composition (total percent body fat)

Body composition (visceral fat)

Body weight

+1 more

Other outcome measures

Participant experience

Trial Design

1Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Group I: Time Restricted EatingExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

Participants will limit their eating (all food and caloric beverages) to an eating window of 10 hours per day for 4 weeks. The eating window must end by 8pm. Water and non-caloric beverages are allowed outside of the eating window. No other changes are required to the types or total amount of food eaten.

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

Time restricted eating

2021

N/A

~130

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Who is running the clinical trial?

University of DelawareLead Sponsor

154 Previous Clinical Trials

25,175 Total Patients Enrolled

Carly Pacanowski, PhDPrincipal InvestigatorUniversity of Delaware

2 Previous Clinical Trials

47 Total Patients Enrolled

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Am I eligible to join in this clinical trial?

"Eligibility requirements for this clinical trial specify that participants must engage in intermittent fasting, between the ages of 20 and 29. The research team is currently recruiting 36 individuals to take part."

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What key goals are this trial hoping to achieve?

"This clinical trial aims to quantify a patient's Eating in the Absence of Hunger over three temporal intervals: baseline, post-intervention and follow up. Secondary endpoints include Diet Quality (evaluated through Healthy Eating Index scores), Body Weight and Visceral Fat Mass as measured by Dual X-ray absorptiometry."

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Is the study available to individuals in older age brackets?

"Based on the qualifications set forth for this study, individuals must be between 20 and 29 years of age to enroll."

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Are there spaces available for individuals to join this trial?

"Affirmative. The clinicaltrials.gov website verifies that this medical trial, initially posted on October 30th 2023 is currently looking for volunteers to participate in the study at one site with a total of 36 participants needed."

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What is the current enrollment of participants in this clinical trial?

"Affirmative. Clinicaltrials.gov suggests that this medical trial is still actively enrolling participants which were first posted on October 30th 2023 and last updated November 17th 2023. 36 people will be recruited from a solitary site for the study."

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Recent research and studies

clinicaltrials.govStudy

Time Restricted Eating, Eating Behaviors, and Cardiometabolic Risk in Emerging Adult Women

Carly R Pacanowski 2023. "Time Restricted Eating, Eating Behaviors, and Cardiometabolic Risk in Emerging Adult Women". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT06145009.