At a glance
- What the study gets you
- Health checks and monitoring — no treatment given
- Type of study
- Observational (no treatment given)
- Time in hospital
- In-person visits at study sites — visit count not specified by the sponsor
- Drug or intervention
- Not specified by the sponsor
- How long the study runs
- Study runs about 4 months (dates as stated)
- About the drug or intervention
- Not specified by the sponsor
- Patient visit burden
- Not specified by the sponsor
- Type of study
- Observing health over time
- Ages
- 18 Years and over
- Who
- All
- Number of participants
- 30
- Started
- 2024-11-27
- Last checked
- 2026-06
Plain English Summary
What is this study?
- • Testing a new treatment for taste thresholds in healthy volunteers
- • Clinical study - 30 participants
- • The sweet threshold (concentration of sucrose in water) at which healthy participants can detect a sweet flavour will be recorded
Who can take part?
- • Ages 18 Years and over
- • Diagnosed with taste thresholds in healthy volunteers
Where?
- • Bristol - Westbury Lodge, Westbury Park
This is a simplified summary. Always discuss with your doctor before making any decisions.
About This Trial
The sweet threshold (concentration of sucrose in water) at which healthy participants can detect a sweet flavour will be recorded.
More detail
The sweet threshold (concentration of sucrose in water) at which healthy participants can detect a sweet flavour will be recorded by means of application on a cotton bud to the anterior third of the tongue. Solutions will be presented in a pseudo-randomised order. Mood questionnaires will be completed (to check that participants are indeed healthy). The questionnaires used will be the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ9), Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI) and Generalised Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire 7 (GAD-7). This data is being collected with the intention of its use for comparison with sweet thresholds established in other populations using the same method of sweet threshold estimation.
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What we know so far
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Eligibility at a Glance
Key info
- Age: 18 Years and over
- Who can join: All genders
What the study is looking for
- ✓. Male and female adults of 18 years old and over;
- ✓Participants without a diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) / anxiety disorder;
- ✓Participants not taking an antidepressant during the preceding 6 months
- ✓Not suffering from significant other mental or physical illness, such as confirmed psychosis, end of life care, or...
- ✓Willing and able to comply with all study-related procedures;
Who cannot take part
- ✗Taking antidepressant medication currently or during the previous 6 months;
- ✗Known or suspected hypersensitivity or intolerance to any taste testing solutions, or any of their excipients;
- ✗Patients with a diagnosis of chronic pain;
- ✗Pregnancy or possibility pregnancy, or breastfeeding;
- ✗Participants using supplements containing psychoactive herbs (for example St Johns Wort or 5-HTP...
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Where Is This Study? (1 UK site)
Westbury Lodge, Westbury Park
Bristol BS6 7JE, United Kingdom