The purpose of this study is to gather information about what family mealtimes look like for families with children between the ages of 3 and 8. Families will be asked to video record their family mealtime, in addition to answer some questions and to complete some questionnaires, some about body image and dieting.

On one occasion, your family's mealtime will be recorded via Zoom. You and your family will be asked some questions and to complete some questionnaires online.

$20

The purpose of this study is to find out if parents and children 6-10 years old are willing and able to follow a protocol to be used to study the effects of short and/or variable sleep in children. During each of three, one-week long periods, we are asking parents to follow one of the following bedtime schedules: 1) habitual bedtime; 2) 1 hour later bedtime; or 3) variable bedtime (+/- 1 hour of habitual bedtime each day). Children will wear a sleep tracker and parents will complete daily diaries. We will also ask participants questions about their experiences completing the protocol.

Participants will attend an enrollment visit at the Noll Laboratory at Penn State's campus where we will go over the study and give participants a sleep monitor. We will then ask parents to put their child to bed at different, specified times over the course of three weeks - normal bedtime in one week; 1 hour later than their usual bedtime in another week; and at a different assigned time each day that will be +/- 1 hour of their normal bedtime during the third week. During all three weeks, children will wear a sleep monitor on their wrist (similar to a Fitbit), and parents will answer a short survey each evening on their smartphone or other device. At the end of the study, participants will attend a final visit (either in-person or by Zoom depending on preference) to answer questions about their experience with the protocol.

$150

The purpose of this voluntary research study is to understand the impact of maternal depression on child outcomes, such as how children respond to rewarding or positive information in their environment and their mental health outcomes, such as anxiety and depression.

In this study, you will complete some interviews and surveys about your and your child’s mental health history, parenting practices, and stress exposure. We will also have your child complete a few computer tasks while we measure their brain activity. You and your child will also complete a few discussion tasks. These procedures will be completed three times over the course of two years.

360 dollars

This study aims to understand how emotion regulation in infants develops within the context of family and community support. We're particularly interested in the relation between mother-infant synchrony, facilitated by family and community support, and infant emotion regulation. We will use a multi-method approach to collect simultaneous brain activation in mothers and infants, infant's physiological responses, and information about family and community support.

Participants complete questionnaires online, then come in for 1 in-person visit. This research aims to find out how patterns of brain activation in infants and mothers and infant physiological responses relate to the real life, face-to-face interactions that mothers and babies usually engage in.

50

This study will record on video mothers and infants engaged in natural activities in their homes. The videos will be coded by experts in language, physical activity, emotion, and object interaction. The data will be shared with researchers via the web-based Databrary.org data library.

There will be one home visit lasting 2-3 hours. Video will be recorded of the child up to 2 years old and mother going about their day for 1 hour, play with specific toys, and survey questions for mom.

$50

The purpose of this study is to examine how individual differences in interoception (the ability to sense, interpret, and act on bodily feelings like hunger, fullness, thirst, hot, cold, etc.) relate to eating behaviors in children ages 7-10 years. Findings will inform whether interventions targeting interoceptive awareness may be helpful for prevention of obesity and related chronic diseases.

Child and parent will attend 2 visits at the Clinical Research Center, about 1-3 weeks apart.At visit 1 (~3 hours)- Your child's height and weight will be measured- Your child's percent body fat will be measured using an x-ray based technology- Your child will wear a heart rate monitor and will complete tasks where they are asked to notice or count their heartbeat- Your child will complete questionnaires via an interview with a researcher- Your child will be asked to drink several glasses of water to measure their stomach sensations- You will complete questionnairesAt visit 2 (~2.5 hours)- We will collect 4 saliva samples from your child- Your child will eat a meal and taste snacks- Your child will play brain games on an iPad- You will complete questionnaires

$100

This will be a 12-week single blinded, randomized, nutrition clinical trial for children with new diagnosis of stage 3 type 1 diabetes (clinical diagnosis of T1D). Beta cell function will be measured after 3 and 6 months.

Study participants in the intervention group will be required to follow the intake of specific foods and adhere to specific nutrition guidelines in addition to follow with a registered dietitian for 12 weeks (4 in person visits and 3 virtual visits). All these visits will be compensated. All study visits will be seen for a screening visit, an enrollment visit, 12-week visit and a 24-week visit. During the study visits, participants will undergo the following: physical exam/ demographic/social evaluation, clinical nutrition evaluation, nutrition counseling, dietary intake assessment, blood test collection, 2-hour Mixed Meal Tolerance Test (MMTT) and anthropometry.

$345

The purpose of this study is to determine whether girls and boys regulate their appetites differently. Children will attend 1, 3 hour session in the laboratory, complete some surveys and health measures, donate saliva, and eat pizza.

Children will come to the lab for a 3.5 hour session where they will wear a heart rate monitor, conduct some surveys, have their veggie intake measured, provide some saliva, and eat some pizza. Parents will attend the lab visit with the child and complete questionnaires about feeding and the home environment.

$50 plus travel costs for > 20 miles from lab