Association between watching eating broadcasts like <i>mukbang</i> and <i>cookbang</i> and generalized anxiety disorder among Korean adolescents

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Background

Anxiety disorders are common during adolescence; therefore, detecting anxiety disorders among adolescents and providing appropriate treatment are crucial. Studies have suggested that watching online audiovisual broadcasts like mukbang and cookbang (hereafter mukbang), where hosts eat or cook food, may influence anxiety disorders. However, there is insufficient research on the association between watching mukbang and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Therefore, we investigated the association between watching mukbang and GAD among Korean adolescents.

Methods

We analyzed 51,764 adolescents who participated in the 2020 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey (KYRBS). The participants were asked how frequently they watched mukbang per week over the past 12 months. Anxiety disorders were assessed using the generalized anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7) questionnaire. A multiple logistic regression analysis was performed after adjusting for confounding variables.

Results

The prevalence of GAD was higher among adolescents who watched mukbang compared to those who did not (aOR: 1.100, 95% CI: 1.026–1.180, P = 0.008 in male participants; aOR: 1.090, 95% CI: 1.003–1.185, P = 0.042 in female participants). The frequency of watching mukbang showed a dose-dependent relationship with a greater likelihood of GAD in female adolescents.

Conclusion

This study’s results showed that watching mukbang is associated with GAD in Korean adolescents. Proper interventions for mental health are needed for adolescents who watch mukbang.

Supplementary Information

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-024-05957-z.

Related collections

Most cited references 46

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: not found

Mortality rates in patients with anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders. A meta-analysis of 36 studies.

Jon Arcelus, Alex J Mitchell, Jackie Wales … (2011)

Morbidity and mortality rates in patients with eating disorders are thought to be high, but exact rates remain to be clarified. To systematically compile and analyze the mortality rates in individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS). A systematic literature search, appraisal, and meta-analysis were conducted of the MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, and Embase databases and 4 full-text collections (ie, ScienceDirect, Ingenta Select, Ovid, and Wiley-Blackwell Interscience). English-language, peer-reviewed articles published between January 1, 1966, and September 30, 2010, that reported mortality rates in patients with eating disorders. Primary data were extracted as raw numbers or confidence intervals and corrected for years of observation and sample size (ie, person-years of observation). Weighted proportion meta-analysis was used to adjust for study size using the DerSimonian-Laird model to allow for heterogeneity inclusion in the analysis. From 143 potentially relevant articles, we found 36 quantitative studies with sufficient data for extraction. The studies reported outcomes of AN during 166 642 person-years, BN during 32 798 person-years, and EDNOS during 22 644 person-years. The weighted mortality rates (ie, deaths per 1000 person-years) were 5.1 for AN, 1.7 for BN, and 3.3 for EDNOS. The standardized mortality ratios were 5.86 for AN, 1.93 for BN, and 1.92 for EDNOS. One in 5 individuals with AN who died had committed suicide. Individuals with eating disorders have significantly elevated mortality rates, with the highest rates occurring in those with AN. The mortality rates for BN and EDNOS are similar. The study found age at assessment to be a significant predictor of mortality for patients with AN. Further research is needed to identify predictors of mortality in patients with BN and EDNOS.

0 comments Cited 548 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: not found

The adolescent brain.

B J Casey, Rebecca M Jones, Todd A Hare (2008)

Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by suboptimal decisions and actions that are associated with an increased incidence of unintentional injuries, violence, substance abuse, unintended pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases. Traditional neurobiological and cognitive explanations for adolescent behavior have failed to account for the nonlinear changes in behavior observed during adolescence, relative to both childhood and adulthood. This review provides a biologically plausible model of the neural mechanisms underlying these nonlinear changes in behavior. We provide evidence from recent human brain imaging and animal studies that there is a heightened responsiveness to incentives and socioemotional contexts during this time, when impulse control is still relatively immature. These findings suggest differential development of bottom-up limbic systems, implicated in incentive and emotional processing, to top-down control systems during adolescence as compared to childhood and adulthood. This developmental pattern may be exacerbated in those adolescents prone to emotional reactivity, increasing the likelihood of poor outcomes.

0 comments Cited 506 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: not found

Prevalence of eating disorders over the 2000–2018 period: a systematic literature review

Marie Galmiche, Pierre Déchelotte, Grégory Lambert … (2019)

Eating disorders (EDs) lead to multiple psychiatric and somatic complications and thus constitute a major public health concern.

0 comments Cited 445 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

All references

Author and article information

Contributors

Eun-Cheol Park: ecpark@yuhs.ac

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): BMC Psychiatry

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMC Psychiatry

Title: BMC Psychiatry

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Electronic): 1471-244X

Publication date (Electronic): 30 July 2024

Publication date PMC-release: 30 July 2024

Publication date Collection: 2024

Volume: 24

Electronic Location Identifier: 536

Affiliations

[1 ]Department of Health Informatics and Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, ( https://ror.org/01wjejq96) Seoul, Republic of Korea

[2 ]Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, ( https://ror.org/01wjejq96) Seoul, Republic of Korea

[3 ]Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, ( https://ror.org/01wjejq96) Seoul, Republic of Korea

[4 ]Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, ( https://ror.org/01wjejq96) Seoul, Republic of Korea

[5 ]Institute of Health Services Research, Yonsei University, ( https://ror.org/01wjejq96) Seoul, Republic of Korea

[6 ]Department of Healthcare Management, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, ( https://ror.org/01wjejq96) Seoul, Republic of Korea

Article

Publisher ID: 5957

DOI: 10.1186/s12888-024-05957-z

PMC ID: 11290270

PubMed ID: 39080570

SO-VID: f0ae7461-9fdc-4872-a91c-6910a71c3511

License:

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.

History

Date received : 25 March 2024

Date accepted : 9 July 2024

Custom metadata

ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry

Keywords: generalized anxiety disorder,gad-7,mukbang and cookbang,kyrbs,adolescents

Data availability:

ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry

Keywords: generalized anxiety disorder, gad-7, mukbang and cookbang, kyrbs, adolescents

Association between watching eating broadcasts like mukbang and cookbang and generalized anxiety disorder among Korean adolescents

Read this article at