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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEAR OF COVID-19 AND LEVELS OF CYBERCHONDRIA AND EVALUATION OF AFFECTING FACTORS [PDF]

, 2023
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic exceeds the level of anxiety in some subjects and turns into fear, which causes an increase in the level of cyberchondria.
Gundogdu, Gülsüm, Sayar, Sultan Esra, Ust Tasgin, Zehra Demet   +2 more
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The Mediating Role of Illness Anxiety in the Relationship between Self-esteem and Cyberchondria in Students [PDF]

Journal 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, Hamoun Babaei Aqje Kohl, Rahim Yousefi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cyberchondria among college students and associated factors: a latent profile analysis

Scientific Reports
Online health research is highly prevalent among college students. Cyberchondria in this population often involves repeated health-related searches driven by anxiety, which can heighten distress and disrupt daily functioning.
Ziqiang Yao, Ning Qin, Shuangjiao Shi, Xiao Li, Zhuqing Zhong   +4 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

BLDE 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, M Sushma, S Cynthia Subhaprada, A Sreedevi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

, 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
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Cyberchondria and COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System, 2020
The new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which belongs to a group of families of viruses, was found in Wuhan, China, on December 29, 2019 and became a highly contagious disease. This unknown disease was introduced with symptoms of fever, cough, myalgia, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, hemoptysis, shortness of breath, severe bilateral lung infiltrates, arrhythmia,
Kavi, Esmaeil, Bazrafshan, Mohammad-Rafi
openaire   +2 more sources

THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL HEALTH PERCEPTION ON CYBERCHONDRIA BEHAVIOR

Sabiad
Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the effect of individual health perception on cyberchondria tendency and to identify differences in individual health perception and cyberchondria tendency according to various demographic variables ...
Mustafa Filiz, Yalçın Karagöz
doaj   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, September 8, 2016 [PDF]

, 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

Information use in chronic illness care: The role of the electronic health record in bridging patient experience and healthcare contexts [PDF]

, 2011
Chronic health conditions typically manifest as pervasive and ongoing in daily life, in contrast to their curative and episodic mode of treatment in most healthcare settings.
Asch, Bates, Bodenheimer, Bodenheimer, Bury, Charmaz, Charmaz, Coleman, Conrad, Corbin, Corbin, Dervin, Dervin, Kizer, Kuhlthau, Kupersmith, Lewis, Longman, Longman, Piette, Savolainen, Shumaker, Vogeli, Wilson   +23 more
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Examining mothers' obsessive and compulsive behaviors regarding baby care, cyberchondria level and maternal burnout in the postpartum period: Path analysis

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, Volume 168, Issue 3, Page 1079-1087, March 2025.
Abstract Objective To examine the effects of postpartum women's obsessive and compulsive behaviors towards the care of their babies and maternal exhaustion levels on cyberchondria. Methods The study, designed as a cross‐sectional and correlation‐seeking study, included 275 mothers.
Öznur Tiryaki, Dilek Menekşe, Hacer Efnan Melek Arsoy, Nursan Çınar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source