Executive Function Training in Childhood Obesity: Food Choice, Quality of Life and Brain Connectivity

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

46

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

February 5, 2018

Primary Completion Date

January 27, 2021

Study Completion Date

January 27, 2021

Conditions
Obesity
Interventions
DEVICE

Executive function training

Home-based executive function training with adaptive difficulty, through Cogmed and Cognifit systems over 6 weeks (30-45 minuts/day, 5 days per week). Cognitive training will consist on working memory training (Cogmed, www.cogmed.com) and executive/inhibitory function training (Cognifit, www.cognifit.com).

OTHER

Psychoeducation

Learning basic healthy habits through daily Prezi presentations that include healthy food recommendations, funny receipts to families, ideas for exercising, emotion and behavioral management strategies, etc.

DEVICE

Placebo non-adaptive training

Executive function training with non-adaptive difficulty through Cognifit system over 6 weeks (30-45 minuts/day, 5 days per week). Exercices will be the same as the ones in the experimental group but minimizing the executive/working memory component and without incresing difficulty.

Trial Locations (1)

08035

Neuroscience Institute. Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Barcelona

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Fundació La Marató de TV3

OTHER

lead

University of Barcelona

OTHER

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