The Doctor Is In(ternet): The Mediating Role of Health Anxiety in the Relationship between Somatic Symptoms and Cyberchondria [PDF]
, 2022 Cyberchondria is a dysfunctional behavioral pattern characterized by an excessive and anxiety-amplifying engagement in searching for reassuring health information on the Internet.
Cavallo J. +5 more
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Coping and Cyberchondria in a Pandemic: A Study on Young Adults
Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour, 2023 Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a significant increase in online health information-seeking (HIS) behavior, leading to increased levels of psychological distress.
Kathryn Nicole Sam +6 more
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Compulsive Health-Related Internet Use and Cyberchondria [PDF]
European Addiction Research, 2020 <b><i>Background:</i></b> Cyberchondria denotes excessive and repeated online health-related searches associated with an increase in health anxiety. Such searches persist in those with cyberchondria, despite the negative consequences, resembling a pattern of compulsive Internet use.
Khazaal, Yasser +7 more
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 BackgroundCyberchondria describes the detrimental effects of health-related internet use. Current conceptualizations agree that cyberchondria is associated with anxiety-related pathologies and may best be conceptualized as a ...
Sandra K Schenkel +3 more
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Are Cyberchondria and Intolerance of Uncertainty Related to Smartphone Addiction? [PDF]
, 2023 Smartphones are a medium for performing online activities, and one such activity could be the compulsive online health information search — cyberchondria.
Demetrovics, Zsolt +5 more
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Psychological Impact Analysis on Adolescents with Cyberchondria: a Literature Review
Psychocentrum Review, 2023 The development of information and communication technology has led teenagers to use gadgets and the internet for prolonged periods of time. Besides being used as a means of entertainment and communication, teenagers nowadays tend to search for health ...
Henny Indreswari +3 more
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Interpreting Neologisms Used in Korea’s Rapidly Changing Society: Delivering the Meaning of Neologisms in Simultaneous Interpretation [PDF]
, 2006 This study will review what kind of neologisms have appeared between the period of 2003-2004, categorize them, and examine how they have been interpreted in order to faithfully convey what the speaker's intent is, that is ...
Choi, Jungwha
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Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2022 Background and Aim: COVID-19 pandemic and related measures of containment such as lockdown led to heavy reliance on Internet for education and leisure activities.
Saumya P Srivastava +2 more
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The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an Open Web Index
, 2019 A proposal for building an index of the Web that separates the infrastructure part of the search engine - the index - from the services part that will form the basis for myriad search engines and other services utilizing Web data on top of a public ...
Lewandowski, Dirk
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Finding information about mental health in microblogging platforms: a Case study of depression [PDF]
, 2014 Searching for online health information has been well studied in web search, but social media, such as public microblogging services, are well known for different types of tacit information: personal experience and shared information.
Ali, Susan Abubakir +2 more
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