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Delay Discounting as a Target for Self-Regulation in Prediabetes
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Episodic Future Thinking, Episodic Recent Thinking, and 2 other interventions for PreDiabetes. Completed, enrolled 78 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
The proposed research will translate research on delay discounting to the prevention of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) in persons with prediabetes. In this study, the investigators will verify target engagement (DD) by examining if EFT improves DD under conditions shown to increase discounting of the future. Prediabetics will be randomized to receive EFT/ERT in a factorial design when experiencing simulated poverty/neutral conditions, respectively. The effects will be measured on DD. The investigators predict that poverty conditions will increase discounting of the future for ERT subjects, but those receiving EFT will show levels of DD similar to levels observed for participants in the wealth condition.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Participants will be instructed to use their episodic future cues as they engage in different decision making tasks.
Participants will be instructed to use their episodic recent cues as they engage in different decision making tasks.
Participants will read a narrative to induce a scarcity mindset, in which they are asked to imagine a scenario in which they have lost their job and have no current secondary income.
Participants will read a narrative in which they are asked to imagine a scenario in which they have been transferred between departmental jobs, with little change in salary/commute.