Complete essay about cyberchondria

References

Doherty-Torstrick, E., Walton, K. E., & Fallon, B. A. (2016). Original research reports: Cyberchondria: Parsing health anxiety from online behavior. Psychosomatics, 57, 390-400. doi:10.1016/j.psym.2016.02.002

Fergus, T. A., & Russell, L. H. (2016). Does cyberchondria overlap with health anxiety and obsessive–compulsive symptoms? an examination of latent structure and scale interrelations.Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 38, 88-94. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.01.009

Norr, A. M., Albanese, B. J., Oglesby, M. E., Allan, N. P., & Schmidt, N. B. (2015). Research report: Anxiety sensitivity and intolerance of uncertainty as potential risk factors for cyberchondria.Journal of Affective Disorders, 174, 64-69. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2014.11.023

Norr, A. M., Allan, N. P., Boffa, J. W., Raines, A. M., & Schmidt, N. B. (2015). Validation of the cyberchondria severity scale (CSS): Replication and extension with bifactor modeling. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 31, 58-64. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2015.02.001

Norr, A. M., Oglesby, M. E., Raines, A. M., Macatee, R. J., Allan, N. P., & Schmidt, N. B. (2015). Relationships between cyberchondria and obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions.Psychiatry Research, 230, 441-446. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2015.09.034

Poel, F. T., Baumgartner, S. E., Hartmann, T., & Tanis, M. (2016). The curious case of cyberchondria: A longitudinal study on the reciprocal relationship between health anxiety and online health information seeking. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, , 32. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.07.009

Here are some extra resources that just came into the library since last time I searched in the Spring. You are not required to use anything more than the list up above here, this is just in case you can’t find what you want up above here.

References

Asmundson, G. J. G., Wright, K. D., & Hadjistavropoulos, H. D. (2000). Anxiety sensitivity and disabling chronic health conditions: State of the art and future directions. Scandinavian Journal of Behaviour Therapy, 29(3-4), 100-117. doi:10.1080/028457100300049719

Psychological treatment of health anxiety and hypochondriasis; a biopsychosocial approach(2008). Book News, Inc.

Singh, K. (2014). Health anxiety in the 21st century : The use of the internet for health purposes and its possible effects on health anxiety University of Manchester.