Unfounded concerns about common medical symptoms based on Internet materials
Cyberchondria, otherwise known as compucondria, is the unfounded escalation of concerns about common symptomology based on review of search results and literature online.[1][2] Articles in popular media position cyberchondria anywhere from temporary neurotic excess to adjunct hypochondria. Cyberchondria is a growing concern among many healthcare practitioners as patients can now research any and all symptoms of a rare disease, illness or condition, and manifest a state of medical anxiety.[3][4]
^Ryen White; Eric Horvitz (2009). "Cyberchondria: Studies of the escalation of medical concerns in Web search". ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 27 (4): 1–37. doi:10.1145/1629096.1629101. S2CID 10984735.
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^Ferguson, Leila (2013-12-04). "Web research could give you a bad dose of cyberchondria". The Conversation. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
^Thomas, Elizabeth (11 June 2018). "Be wary of Dr Google". The Asian Age.
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