A thematic analysis of YouTube comments on a television documentary titled ‘Diabulimia: The World's most dangerous eating disorder’
Authors' conclusion
This analysis of social media comments found that there is a lack of awareness of diabulimia amongst patients, their families and friends, and healthcare professionals and that there were many commenters who had the experience of disordered eating with T1D. This study has reported on themes that suggest there may be an eating disorder specifically in people with T1D and that further work is needed to understand the diagnostic criteria for diabulimia in order to develop effective treatments.
Study context
- Population
- Original YouTube comments on the documentary 'Diabulimia: The World's Most Dangerous Eating Disorder' (24 September 2017–16 June 2020); commenters were people with T1D, family and friends, health care professionals and the wider publiceligible of 1424 comments
- Participants
- 1,264 participants
- Outcome
- Main themes
Methodological detailscoding reliability thematic analysis, NVivo software, social media comments
- Coding reliability thematic analysis
- NVivo software
- Social media comments
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Lack of awareness of diabulimia as a condition
- The importance of support
- Diabulimia as a psychiatric condition in the diabetes setting
Original publication
A thematic analysis of YouTube comments on a television documentary titled ‘Diabulimia: The World's most dangerous eating disorder’. Diabet Med. Published 19 December 2022. doi:10.
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