The purpose of this trial is to determine if the colour of sweets (candy) effects taste.
The purpose of this trial is to increase children's awareness of randomised controlled trials and gain insights into the best way to conduct a fair comparison. Everyday children are faced with health claims, some reliable and some not so reliable. The purpose of the SMARTY trial is to help children critically assess and develop a critical eye when it comes to information they encounter every day, in particular when it comes to their health. The SMARTY trial is a pragmatic, two group, parallel, randomised trial.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
one chocolate sweet/ chocolate candy
National University of Ireland Galway
Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland
Taste
Participants will be asked to indicate on visual scale how much they like the taste of the smartie© they ate using the 'single-item sleep quality scale (SQS)' . The SQS is a self-administered visual analogue scale on which respondents rate the overall quality of sleep over a 7-day recall period on a likert type scaling option from 0 to 10, according to the following five categories: 0 = terrible, 1-3 = poor, 4-6 = fair, 7-9 = good, and 10 = excellent .
Time frame: 15 minutes
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