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Cyberchondria: Challenges of Problematic Online Searches for Health-Related Information
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“For example, frantic searching for COVID-19-related information online may increase anxiety and distress and thus lead to cyberchondria (Starcevic, 2017); at the same time, important and even survival-promoting information may be overlooked or missed due to a fear of knowing.”
From The four horsemen of fear: An integrated model of understanding fear experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) · cites this paper as Starcevic, 2017
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Cyberchondria: towards a better understanding of excessive health-related internet use
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The development and initial validation of the cyberchondria severity scale (CSS)
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Cyberchondria: parsing health anxiety from online behavior
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Metadata
- Authors
- Starcevic, V.
- ORCID
- Starcevic, Vladan
- Venue
- Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Published
- 2017
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 129-133
- ISSN
- 0033-3190 (ISSN-L)
- 1423-0348
- OpenAlex
- W2612742985
- Cited by
- 231
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 19.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Keywords
- cyberchondria, health anxiety, online health information seeking, problematic internet use
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety, Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Online Systems, User-Computer Interface, Internet, Health Information Systems
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