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An exploratory study of "selfitis" and the development of the Selfitis Behavior Scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In 2014, stories appeared in national and international media claiming that the condition of "selfitis" (the obsessive taking of selfies) was to be classed as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association and that the condition could be ...
Balakrishnan, J, Griffiths, MD
core   +1 more source

Health communication, infodemics and disinformation about dementia related contents during COVID pandemic in Arabic countries: A bibliometric analysis

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 20, Issue S4, December 2024.
Abstract Background The spread of fake news may lead to a disparate wave of digital health‐seeking behavior, cyberchondria, anxiety, indecision, and other psychosocial dysfunctions, including collapse in social capital and stigmatization. In this study, we utilized a bibliometric analysis to discern the primary trends associated with health ...
Mohamed Taiebine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Mediating Role of Illness Anxiety in the Relationship between Self-esteem and Cyberchondria in Students [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Research in Psychopathology
Cyberchondria, illness anxiety, and self-esteem are three seemingly unrelated concepts that are quite intertwined.  This research investigates the mediating role of illness anxiety in the relationship between self-esteem and cyberchondria in students ...
Ezzatollah Ahmadi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of cyberchondria among undergraduate students of a private degree college with Cyberchondria Severity Scale-12 in an urban area

open access: yesBLDE University Journal of Health Sciences, 2023
CONTEXT: With the digital revolution, the Internet has become a source of health-related searches. Cyberchondria is a behavioral disorder where repeated online health-related searches result in health anxiety.
Ummu Kulsum   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, September 8, 2016 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Volume 147, Issue 5https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily_2016/1045/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
core   +1 more source

Googling and health anxiety in older age—A case study of CBT incorporating a single case experimental design

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, Volume 12, Issue 8, August 2024.
Vicious flower maintenance formulation of client's health anxiety, adapted from Salkovskis et al. (Brief Treat Crisis Interv, 2003, 3, 353). Key Clinical Message The use of online search engines to “google” health‐related information is common in health anxiety, and requires careful consideration within psychological treatment.
Sean Hill, Daniel Watts
wiley   +1 more source

Prediction of cyberchondria based on components of anxiety sensitivity and intolerance of uncertainty among students of Tabriz universities in 2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
زمینه و هدف: جستجوی اینترنتی اطلاعات پزشکی، جز فعالیت های متداول به شمار می رود. اخیراً پژوهشگران شروع به مطالعه درباره چرخه‌ ای آزار دهنده از نگرانی های مرتبط با سلامت جسمانی و جستجوی اینترنتی اطلاعات پزشکی تحت عنوان «سایبرکندوریا» کرده
Karsazi, Hossein.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Utility of Non-rule-based Visual Matching as a Strategy to Allow Novices to Achieve Skin Lesion Diagnosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Non-analytical reasoning is thought to play a key role in dermatology diagnosis. Considering its potential importance, surprisingly little work has been done to research whether similar identification processes can be supported in non-experts.
Aldridge, R. Benjamin   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Annual Research Review: Health anxiety in children and adolescents—developmental aspects and cross‐generational influences

open access: yesJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 413-430, April 2024.
Health anxiety involves excessive worries about one's health along with beliefs one has an illness or may contract a serious disease. Concerning evidence suggests that health anxiety is on the rise in society, possibly further fueled by the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Charlotte Ulrikka Rask   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 era-related e-learning: a cross-sectional web-scale study of cyberchondria, internet addiction and anxiety-related symptomatology among university nursing students

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2023
Objective The study assessed COVID-19 era-related e-learning cyberchondria, internet addiction and anxiety-related symptomatology among nursing students.
Majd T Mrayyan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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