Is Mid-morning Breakfast as Healthy as Early-morning Breakfast for Blood Sugar Control in Adolescent Girls?
NCT ID: NCT05000944
Last Updated: 2023-10-05
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
15 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2021-11-18
2022-07-13
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Recruitment:
Girls will be recruited from local schools after gaining parental informed consent and child assent. These schools have expressed an interest in facilitating recruitment for the proposed research by providing a platform to invite girls to participate and permission for time off school to complete the measures. The participants will be invited to attend an assembly at their school and those that wish to discuss their participation with a parent/primary caregiver will take an information pack home that includes written details of the study. On return of a contact form, students and their primary caregiver will be asked to complete the consent, assent and pre-participation health screen questionnaire, before registration on the study.
Experimental design:
This study will employ a cross-over design. Participants will complete three conditions assigned according to the Latin square method: breakfast omission (BO), early-morning breakfast consumption (EM-BC) and mid-morning breakfast consumption (MM-BC). The conditions will be conducted \~7 days apart in girls who have not started their menses or in the early-follicular phase (\~28 days apart) in girls with regular menses to minimise the potential confounding influence of menstrual cycle phase. In the 48 hours before the conditions, dietary intakes, bed time and wake/out of bed times will be replicated, and vigorous physical activity will be minimised (as confirmed via accelerometry).
After an overnight fast, resting metabolic rate (RMR) and substrate oxidation will be estimated via expired air analysis, and a capillary blood sample for the measurement of plasma glucose and insulin will be taken (\~08:15 to 08:30). These measures will be collected at regular intervals, with a standardised lunch consumed at 4 h (\~12:30) and followed by a 2-h lunch postprandial period. The standardised breakfast will be provided immediately after fasting measures at \~08:30 for EM-BC and 2 hours later at \~10:30 for MM-BC. Participants will remain sedentary throughout. Water intake will be replicated between the conditions.
Test meals:
A carbohydrate-rich, low glycaemic index (GI) breakfast providing \~70% carbohydrate, \~17% fat and \~13% protein will be used. The breakfast will be provided in quantities containing 0.04 g carbohydrate per kcal of individualised daily RMR. The standardised lunch providing 0.05 g of carbohydrate per kcal of daily RMR will be based on high GI carbohydrate. Meal consumption time will be limited to 15 minutes and replicated between the conditions.
Data and statistical analyses:
Pre-lunch (4 hours) and post-lunch (2 hours) incremental (iAUC) and total (tAUC) area under the curve will be calculated using the trapezium rule for the primary outcomes, plasma glucose and insulin. and the secondary outcomes, resting energy expenditure and substrate oxidation rates. In addition, peak plasma glucose concentration after lunch will be determined.
Linear mixed models will be used to compare all outcome variables between the conditions. Models will include fixed effects for condition (and time for the condition by time analyses) and a random intercept for participants, and will be adjusted for the order effect. The Holm-Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons will be applied. Normality will be checked using Shapiro Wilk tests. Statistical significance will be accepted at p≤0.05. Cohen's effect sizes will be used to gauge the magnitude of differences.
Sample size estimation:
Based on 80% power at an alpha level of p=0.05, it is estimated that 21 breakfast skipping adolescent girls are required to detect a meaningful between-condition difference (Cohen's f=0.36) in post-lunch plasma glucose area under the curve. Recruitment will target 27 participants across the two study sites to account for an expected 20% attrition rate.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
CROSSOVER
PREVENTION
NONE
Study Groups
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breakfast omission (BO)
No breakfast will be provided until the lunch time at \~12:30. Blood samples will be taken at fasting state and postprandially at different intervals after breakfast and lunch for the measurement of glucose and insulin concentrations.
breakfast omission (BO)
this group will not be provided with a breakfast until lunch time (at 12:30).
early-morning breakfast consumption (EM-BC)
A standardised, carbohydrate-rich, low glycaemic index (GI) breakfast will be provided at \~08:30 for EM-BC. Blood samples will be taken at fasting state and postprandially at different intervals after breakfast and lunch for the measurement of glucose and insulin concentrations.
early-morning breakfast consumption (EM-BC)
this group will be provided with an early morning breakfast (at 08:30).
mid-morning breakfast consumption (MM-BC).
A standardised, carbohydrate-rich, low glycaemic index (GI) breakfast will be provided at \~10:30 for MM-BC (i.e., two hours after EM-BC). Blood samples will be taken at fasting state and postprandially at different intervals after breakfast and lunch for the measurement of glucose and insulin concentrations.
mid-morning breakfast consumption (MM-BC)
this group will be provided with a mid (late) morning breakfast (at 10:30).
Interventions
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breakfast omission (BO)
this group will not be provided with a breakfast until lunch time (at 12:30).
early-morning breakfast consumption (EM-BC)
this group will be provided with an early morning breakfast (at 08:30).
mid-morning breakfast consumption (MM-BC)
this group will be provided with a mid (late) morning breakfast (at 10:30).
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* no health issues that could be affected by study participation (e.g., food allergies)
* no extreme dislikes of the test meals.
Exclusion Criteria
* Food allergies that would prevent consumption of prescribed meals
11 Years
14 Years
FEMALE
Yes
Sponsors
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University of Bedfordshire
OTHER
Loughborough University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Sahar Afeef
PhD student
Principal Investigators
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Keith Tolfrey, Dr
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Loughborough University
Sahar Afeef, MSc
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Loughborough University
Julia Zakrzewski-Fruer, Dr
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Bedfordshire
Laura Barrett, Dr
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Loughborough University
Locations
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Local schools
Loughborough, , United Kingdom
Countries
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References
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Other Identifiers
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3129
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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