Relationships between online health information seeking and psychopathology
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In a logistic regression analysis of 992 adults from the general population, conducting health-related internet uses was associated with HA, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and intolerance of uncertainty; however, only the severity of somatic symptoms independently predicted health-related internet use when each of these pathological domains was controlled for.
“It was shown that conducting health-related internet uses was associated with HA, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and intolerance of uncertainty (among other psychopathologies); however, only the severity of somatic symptoms independently predicted health-related internet use when each of these pathological domains was controlled for.”
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- Authors
- Berle, D., Starcevic, V., Khazaal, Y., Viswasam, K., Hede, V., & McMullan, R. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
- Nepean Hospital (AU)
- University Hospital of Geneva (CH)
- Macquarie University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Berle, David
- Venue
- General Hospital Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-01
- Volume
- 62
- Pages
- 96-97
- ISSN
- 0163-8343 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2939232499
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 3.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- serval.unil.ch
- Licence
- Locations
- General Hospital Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- IRIS (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Keywords
- online health information seeking, psychopathology, intolerance of uncertainty, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, depressive symptoms, somatic symptoms, anxiety, health anxiety, emotional distress
- MeSH terms
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Adult, Anxiety, Attitude to Health, Depression, Humans, Internet, Uncertainty, Information Seeking Behavior
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