The Effect of Watching Mukbang on the Desire to Eat

Mukbang Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Watching Mukbang on the Desire to Eat

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04212104
• Other study ID #: 1806008044
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 5, 2018
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: December 2019
• Source: Cornell University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The current study is designed to find the effect of mukbang on dieters. Mukbang is an online eating broadcast where a host (Asian mukbangs generally feature a young and slim female host) consumes a large amount of food while chatting with audiences. Since some dieters watch mukbang to get satiation and control their appetites, the investigators proposed the hypothesis that mukbang could increase people's satiation level and decrease their desire to eat. To test this hypothesis, one randomized controlled study was conducted and female participants were randomly selected to watch either a mukbang or a non-food related video. Their desire to eat were reported and measured after the video.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 144
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: November 30, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female, English native speakers

Exclusion Criteria:

• Male, English is not mother language

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Mukbang

Intervention

Other:
• watch a mukbang
watch the dim sum mukbang
• watch a non-food video
watch the Big Bang Theory video

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Cornell University	Ithaca	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cornell University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	satiation	participants report their satiation level, on a scale from -3 to 3. -3 means not satisfied at all, 3 means very satisfied.	report the feeling right after the intervention (since participants were first randomized to watch a video when participated in the study, after the intervention, i.e., after the video means 3 minutes after participants started the study)
Primary	disgust	participants report their disgust level, on a scale from -3 to 3. -3 means not disgust at all, 3 means very disgust	report the feeling right after the intervention (since participants were first randomized to watch a video when participated in the study, after the intervention, i.e., after the video means 3 minutes after participants started the study)
Primary	desire to eat dim sum	participants report their desire to eat dim sum, on a scale from 0 to 10. 0 means not want to eat dim sum at all, 10 means very want to eat dim sum.	report the feeling right after the intervention (since participants were first randomized to watch a video when participated in the study, after the intervention, i.e., after the video means 3 minutes after participants started the study)
Primary	desire to eat fruits or vegetables	participants report their desire to eat fruits or vegetables, on a scale from 0 to 10. 0 means do not want to eat fruit or vegetable at all, 10 means very want to eat fruit or vegetable.	report the feeling right after the intervention (since participants were first randomized to watch a video when participated in the study, after the intervention, i.e., after the video means 3 minutes after participants started the study)