HIGHER LEVELS OF INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY PREDICT GREATER LEVELS OF SMARTPHONE ADDICTION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: THE SERIAL MEDIATING ROLES OF DEATH ANXIETY AND CYBERCHONDRIA [PDF]
, 2023 This study examines the relationship between the intolerance of uncertainty and smartphone addiction and investigates the serial mediating roles of death anxiety and cyberchondria in this relationship.
Koç, Hayri
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Cyberchondria severity and utilization of health services in Polish society: a cross-sectional study
BMC Public HealthBackground It has been suggested that cyberchondria leads to increased utilization of healthcare services. Unfortunately, not many studies have analyzed this effect comprehensively.
Mateusz Kobryn, Mariusz Duplaga
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Enabling personalized healthcare by analyzing semantic dependencies in a conceptual co-occurrence network based on a medical vocabulary [PDF]
, 2016 The amount of medical knowledge is constantly growing thus providing new hope for people having health-related problems. However a challenge is to develop flexible methods to facilitate managing and interpreting large medical knowledge entities. There is
Lahti, Lauri
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Research and Evaluation of a Cyberchondria Severity Scale in a Chinese Context
Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2023 Dawei Wang,1 Lingchao Sun,1 Yunru Shao,1 Xiaoyan Zhang,1 Phil Maguire,2 Yixin Hu1 1School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Galway ...
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Mining the Web for Medical Hypothesis: A Proof-of-Concept System [PDF]
, 2012 As the prevalence of blogs, discussion forums, and online news services continues to grow, so too does the portion of this Web content that relates to health and medicine.
Maclean, Diana, Seltzer, Margo I.
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The relationships between health anxiety, online health information seeking, and cyberchondria: Systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2018 © 2018 Background: Cyberchondria refers to an abnormal behavioral pattern in which excessive or repeated online searches for health-related information are distressing or anxiety-provoking.
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Psychiatria Polska, 2019 Cel pracyCelem artykułu jest przedstawienie procesu adaptacji testu do pomiaru cyberchondrii (Cyberchondria Severity Scale, CSS) do warunków polskich, jak i weryfikacja wybranych miar rzetelności narzędzia i trafności teoretycznej testu.MetodaUczestnikami badania było 380 osób (203 kobiet i 177 mężczyzn) w wieku od 19 do 68 lat, (M = 26,5; SD = 11,1 ...
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What are the character strengths of a good doctor? [PDF]
, 2013 In recent years fictional doctors with unappealing character traits have become a trope of television depictions of medical settings: the eponymous Dr House who misanthropy extends to both patients and colleagues. Dr Cox of the hospital-set comedy Scrubs
Jones, Demelza
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Direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs in New Zealand: Time for a Radical Change?
, 2015 This paper deals with Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) for prescription drugs in New Zealand. This kind of advertising can be defined as the business practice of pharmaceutical companies where they promote their prescription medicine directly to ...
Jochem, Helena
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Supporting online health queries by modeling patterns of creation, modification and retrieval of medical knowledge [PDF]
, 2016 We evaluated properties of knowledge resources that can be used for building new semantically and behaviorally motivated resources of health guidance and clinical decision making by modeling patterns of creation, modification and retrieval of medical ...
Lahti, Lauri
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