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Trial Title:
Using Mukbang to Improve Appetite, Nutritional Status and Quality of Life in Children With Cancer
NCT ID:
NCT05922553
Condition:
Children With Cancer
Conditions: Keywords:
Childhood Cancer
Mukbang
Appetite
Nutritional Status
Quality of Life
Study type:
Interventional
Study phase:
N/A
Overall status:
Not yet recruiting
Study design:
Allocation:
Randomized
Intervention model:
Parallel Assignment
Primary purpose:
Supportive Care
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Intervention:
Intervention type:
Behavioral
Intervention name:
Active Ingredient Mukbang
Description:
Mukbang videos include the items which can truly improve the appetite of children with
cancer, such as food images, eating sound and interactivity.
Arm group label:
Active Ingredient Mukbang
Intervention type:
Behavioral
Intervention name:
Common Mukbang
Description:
Common Mukbang videos made and uploaded by the famous Mukbang makers.
Arm group label:
Common Mukbang
Intervention type:
Behavioral
Intervention name:
General short videos
Description:
Short videos that don't contain any food cues.
Arm group label:
General short videos
Summary:
This study aims to use a three arms randomized clinical trial study to evaluate the
effectiveness of the effective constituent of Mukbang in helping children with cancer
hospitalized for radiotherapy and chemotherapy to improve their appetite, nutritional
status and quality of life.
Detailed description:
Cancer has a high incidence among children and adolescents worldwide. In October 2020,
the World Health Organization (WHO) released an overview of the Global Action on
Childhood Cancer which showed that more than 400,000 children under the age of 19 were
diagnosed with cancer worldwide every year. With the development and progress of
diagnosis and treatment technology, the health outcome of children with cancer has been
greatly improved.
However, the side effects and complications associated with cancer and its treatment can
seriously affect the appetite and food intake of children with cancer, resulting in
malnutrition and a low quality of life. Therefore, it is very important to effectively
improve the appetite of children with cancer during treatment.
Clinical methods to improve the appetite of cancer patients mainly include drugs, diet or
nutrition intervention, traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, but each
intervention has its own advantages and disadvantages which makes the clinical
application effect difficult to evaluate, in urgent need of more effective solutions to
solve this problem.
Mukbang has shown great potential in helping children with cancer to improve their
appetite and food consumption, finally promote nutritional health. What's more, the
features of Mukbang, such as high-quality and clear pictures, relaxed atmosphere created
by the video makers, sounds while eating, and attractive images of food, may promote
viewers' appetite and increase their intake imperceptibly. In addition to that, watching
Mukbang while eating can also provide a pleasant eating experience for children with
cancer, and the interaction with the Mukbang anchor can also alleviate the loneliness of
children who live in hospital for such a long time, so as to enhance the children's taste
experience, relieve the negative emotions of loneliness and depression.
Research has found that Mukbang can help people with low appetites increase their food
intake and the interest in food. Several studies have shown that videos containing food
cues can increase viewers' appetite and decrease feelings of satiety to a certain extent.
At the same time, Mukbang can also increase viewers' taste experience on the basis of
physics and improve children's interest in food. Thus, Mukbang is a useful tool for those
who are struggling to increase the amount and variety of acceptable foods and gain
weight. It also suggests that clinicians who treat eating disorders should be aware that
Mukbang is a potential factor in their illness, and that effective positive use may be
helpful for patients with anorexia or restrictive eating.
Given that, Mukbang will be applied to help children with cancer to improve appetite,
nutritional status and quality of life. Studies have found that food images, eating
sounds and interactivity of Mukbang may play a leading role in improving appetite. Thus,
we defined the active ingredients of Mukbang as food images, eating sound and
interactivity in this study. Based on that, this study aims to compare the effect of
active ingredient Mukbang, ordinary Mukbang and general short videos without food cues on
improving appetite in children with cancer, to provide evidence for larger randomized
controlled trials (RCTS) and provide a new direction for clinical departments to develop
nutritional interventions and management programs for children with cancer.
Criteria for eligibility:
Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Aged between 6 to 18 years old;
- Children in accordance with the guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of 12
Diseases related to hematologic diseases and malignant tumors (2021 version) issued
by the General Office of the National Health Commission;
- At least experience one full cycle of chemotherapy;
- Children with moderate or higher symptoms of decreased appetite were screened for a
list of treatment-related symptoms.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children with serious cardiopulmonary disease, infection, organ damage, or genetic
metabolic disease, immune deficiency disease, mental illness;
- Children with eye or ear dysfunction that prevents them from watching and listening
to videos.
Gender:
All
Minimum age:
6 Years
Maximum age:
18 Years
Healthy volunteers:
No
Locations:
Facility:
Name:
Sun Yat-sen University
Address:
City:
Guangzhou
Zip:
510080
Country:
China
Start date:
August 2023
Completion date:
May 2024
Lead sponsor:
Agency:
Wei XIA, PhD
Agency class:
Other
Source:
Sun Yat-sen University
Record processing date:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 12, 2024
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov page:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05922553
