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European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Cyberchondria involves excessive and uncontrollable online searching of information about a perceived illness. This behavior can cause or maintain distress.
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CYBERCHONDRIA: ROLE OF POTENTIAL RISK FACTORS
Khyber Medical University Journal, 2022 OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and cyberchondria and to find out the mediating role of anxiety sensitivity in this relationship.
Iram Batool, Huma batool
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The prevalence of Cyberchondria during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A cross-sectional study among a sample of Students of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences [PDF]
روانشناسی و روانپزشکی شناخت, 2021 Introduction: Nowadays, the Internet and cyberspace play an important role in obtaining medical information. Many people on the Internet are looking for various information about diseases and their side effects.
Khatereh Heshmati +4 more
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Archives of Mental Health, 2021 Background: It is common among medical students to incorrectly believe that they have contracted certain diseases they have recently studied. This belief can be seen in the form of health anxiety and investigating health-related information via the Internet.
Sujana Devi Gandla +2 more
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JMIR Formative Research, 2023 BackgroundCyberchondria is characterized by repeated and compulsive online searches for health information, resulting in increased health anxiety and distress.
Alexandre Infanti +10 more
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Heliyon, 2022 Since the global pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), online health information-seeking behaviors have notably increased. Cyberchondria can be a vulnerability factor for the worsening of anxiety-depressive symptoms and quality of life ...
Federica Ambrosini +4 more
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The moderating effect of alexithymia on the relationship between stress and cyberchondria
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 ObjectivesThe pandemic has increased the level of perceived stress and provided a fertile soil for Cyberchondria. This study aims to investigate the relationship between stress, cyberchondria, and alexithymia.MethodsThis cross-sectional study used ...
Yi Zhou +7 more
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Cyberchondria in the time of the
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2020 Cyberchondria is an excessive or repeated online health information seeking that is associated with increasing levels of health anxiety or distress. This article presents a model of cyberchondria during public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Starcevic, Vladan +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 BackgroundThere is extensive available research on the relationship between fear of COVID-19 pandemic and physical symptoms. This study was the first to examine the cyberchondria and COVID-19 preventive behavior as mediators of this relationship.MethodsA
Alena Zolotareva
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Investigating the Obsessive and Compulsive Features of Cyberchondria: A Holistic Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 BackgroundCyberchondria has been brought into sharp focus during the COVID-19 health emergency; it refers to individuals who obsessively and compulsively search for health information online, resulting in excessive health concerns.
Yi Yang, Na Ta, Zhanghao Li, Zhanghao Li
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