Unraveling the Cyberchondria Phenomenon: Unearthing the Intriguing Connection Between Its Dimensions and Health Outcomes

Ayu Cetiya Mahayekti; Thareq Barasabha; Iffatun Nisak Kamaliyah; Muhammad Abdul Raziq

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Unraveling the Cyberchondria Phenomenon: Unearthing the Intriguing Connection Between Its Dimensions and Health Outcomes

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Ayu Cetiya Mahayekti¹^{, 2}, Thareq Barasabha¹^{, 3}^{, 4}^{, 5}^{, *}, Iffatun Nisak Kamaliyah¹^{, 6}, Muhammad Abdul Raziq¹^{, 3}

¹PT Digitalindo Medikatekno Lantaburo (DGscope.id), Malang, Indonesia

²Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

³Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

⁴Psychiatry Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁵St. Cross College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁶Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

^*Corresponding author. Email: thareq@ub.ac.id

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Thareq Barasabha

Available Online 29 October 2024.

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Keywords: cyberchondria; compulsion; distress; excessiveness; mistrust of medical practitioners; reassurance seeking
Abstract: Online health information is extensive and diversified, encompassing anything about the symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments of various diseases, as well as simply general information. The deluge of information from all types of media, on the other hand, has intensified various psychological ramifications connected with pandemics and epidemics, such as heightened health worry, medical concerns, and anguish, or what we term cyberchondria. We did a narrative review to have a better understanding of how cyberchondria affects individual health using many papers from 2019 to 2023 to learn more about cyberchondria. Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, and Academic Search Complete were among the databases used. According to the findings of 47 articles, Cyberchondria can produce symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, which leads the body to experience excessive stress, resulting in a chronic allostatic system that can lead to a variety of cardiovascular and immunological disorders. For persons who currently have health issues, psychological discomfort can contribute to poor disease progression. In healthy individuals, psychological disturbance might contribute to immunological problems. Cyberchondria is also linked with internet addiction which has a significant influence on a person’s physical health since it reduces physical activity, disrupts sleep patterns, and leads to obesity, as well as other physical issues such as pain in body parts and visual problems. Excessive reassurance seeking can result in anxiety, preoccupation, and skepticism of knowledge. Medical distrust, a well-documented barrier to care, has a negative influence on a number of health-related patient behaviors and outcomes across a wide range of medical settings.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2023 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC 2023)
Series: Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date: 29 October 2024
ISBN: 978-94-6463-525-6
ISSN: 2352-5428
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-525-6_66 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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