Time-restricted Eating, Appetite and Sleep

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-08-11

Study Completion Date

2023-03-31

Brief Summary

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The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effect of time-restricted eating (TRE) to 10 hours per day on the regulation of appetite, the desire to eat, and the quality and duration of nocturnal sleep in adults with normal weight and short sleep duration and/or habitual poor quality sleep.

The main questions it aims to answer are: 1) How does a time-restricted eating protocol affect appetite and desire to eat? and 2) How does a time-restricted eating protocol affect nighttime sleep duration and quality? Participants will be asked to follow a TRE protocol on which they must restrict their eating to a self-selected time window of 10 hours per day (but with mandatory fasting from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.) for 2 months. Researchers will compare the intervention with a control group, in which the participants should follow their usual diet without any time restriction, to see if the intervention decreases appetite and desire to eat, improves the quality, and increases sleep duration.

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Detailed Description

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Time-restricted eating (TRE) restricts the time to consume food during the day, establishing a feeding window (thus extending the fasting period). It has been suggested that TRE may regulate appetite and sleep quality, even though the evidence is equivocal for these last two aspects. This study aims to determine the effect of TRE (to 10 hours per day) on regulating appetite, the desire to eat, and the quality and duration of nocturnal sleep in normal-weight adults with short-duration and/or habitual poor-quality sleep.

The study sample will be composed of at least 24 participants, randomly assigned to an intervention (TRE) or no-intervention (Control) group. Participants will be recruited in the Santiago Metropolitan region (near the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, Independencia commune) through an open call to participate (through flyers and on social networks). The groups being randomly compared are: i) TRE (intervention group), in which participants must restrict their eating to a time window of 10 hours per day, with mandatory fasting from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.; and ii) Control (no-intervention group), in which the participants should follow their usual diet, without any time restriction. Both groups will be evaluated before, during, and after 2 months.

In both groups, the following main parameters will be evaluated: i) appetite and satiety feelings (through visual analog scales) and the intense desire to eat (through a Food Craving inventory); ii) the quality of habitual sleep during the last month (through the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) and, nighttime sleep duration (through 7-days actigraphy recordings); iii) diet composition and quality (through 24-h recall). Measurements of anthropometry and body fat will also be implemented.

Conditions

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Sleep Appetitive Behavior

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

This was a randomized, controlled experimental study. The recruited participants will be randomized to follow one of two groups: i) TRE, during which the participants will have to restrict the daily time allocated to eating to a window of 10 hours per day but without any other diet modification (e.g., types of food or amount of energy consumed). The fasting period of participants assigned to this intervention must include between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. Each participant can freely choose the starting time of their eating window. If a participant needs to make modifications to the start time of her feeding window, he/she may do so only once during the study, and the research team must be informed; ii) Control, during which the participants must continue with their usual eating pattern, without making any changes. The duration of the intervention will be 8 weeks. Randomization will be done using computer-generated random numbers.

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Time-restricted eating

Participants in the TRE group must restrict their eating to a time window of 10 hours per day, with mandatory fasting from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Time-restricted eating

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Self-selected 10-hour eating window for 2 months

Control

Participants in the Control group must follow their usual diet routine, without any time restriction

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Time-restricted eating

Self-selected 10-hour eating window for 2 months

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Young (age between 18 to 45 years)
* Healthy adults
* Both women and men
* Body-mass index between 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2
* Report sleeping less than 7 hours per night and/or who have poor sleep quality.

Exclusion Criteria

* Night shift workers
* Patients with psychiatric disorders
* Patients with neurological diseases
* Patients with uncontrolled thyroid disease
* Lactating and pregnant women
* Patients with type-1 or type-2 diabetes
* Persons with high blood pressure or hypertension
* Patients with uncontrolled dyslipidemia
* Patients with sleep disorders
* Persons who perform intense physical exercise more than 3 times a week

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

45 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes