Understanding Mood, Eating, and Exercise for Gut Health
This study is looking at how different moods and feelings might affect your stomach and digestion when you eat before exercising. Many athletes wonder if their emotions impact gut problems during competition, and this study aims to find out. You would watch short video clips that are funny, scary, or thrilling to create different moods. After watching, you'll eat some food and then run on a treadmill. Researchers will then measure any stomach or digestion problems you experience during exercise. They will also look at how your body responds physically and metabolically (how your body uses energy) to these different moods. The study is open to healthy adults aged 18 to 55 who are physically active and can run for 30 minutes.
- Study design
- This study is an interventional study planning to enroll 90 participants. It will involve participants watching different types of video clips.
- What's involved
- You would watch 5-7 minutes of video clips, eat food, and then participate in a 30-minute jogging/running protocol.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- The primary endpoints are measured during and immediately after the exercise protocol, and immediately after video watching.
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The Influence of Different Mood States and Emotions on the Physiologic, Metabolic, and Perceptual Responses to Feeding Before Exercise
At a glance
Conditions
NCT05217589
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Human Performance Laboratory
Norfolk, Virginiastudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Who to contact
Opens a ready-to-send draft in your own email app — review before sending.
What this trial measures
- Total exercise gastrointestinal symptom burdenTotal GI symptom burden over a 30-minute jogging/running protocol.
The severity of several gastrointestinal symptoms will be assessed on a validated 0-10 scale. Ratings will be collected every 5 minutes during a 30-minute treadmill jogging/running test. Scores from every 5-minute collection will be summed to calculate total GI symptom scores.
- Change in emotion ratingsChange in emotion ratings between immediately pre-video and immediately post-video.
Anxiety, fear, happiness, amusement, disgust, sadness, and anger on a 0-9 Likert scale. Emotions will be assessed before watching video clips and immediately after watching video clips.