Quantitative and qualitative aspects of cancer knowledge - comparing hypochondriacal subjects and healthy controls

Haenen, Marie-Anne; Schmidt, Anton J.M.; Schoenmakers, Mieke; Hout, Marcel A. van den

doi:10.1080/08870449808407445

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“…17 These behaviors are intended to reassure the individual of being healthy and include the intensive search for health information. 20 Alongside checking physical symptoms or asking a medical expert, health anxious individuals may search the Internet for information related to their presumed illness. While every Internet user may search for health information, we assume that the need to search for online health information is greater among health anxious individuals.…”

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The Role of Health Anxiety in Online Health Information Search

Baumgartner

Hartmann

2011

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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This article is one of the first to empirically explore the relationship between health anxiety and online health information search. Two studies investigate how health anxiety influences the use of the Internet for health information and how health anxious individuals respond to online health information. An exploratory survey study with 104 Dutch participants indicates that health anxiety is related to an increase in online health information search. Moreover, results suggest that health anxious individuals experience more negative consequences from online health information search. Findings from an experimental study (n = 120) indicate that online health information results in greater worries among health anxious individuals compared to nonhealth anxious individuals only if the information stems from a trustworthy governmental Web site. Information from a less trustworthy online forum does not lead to greater worries among health anxious individuals. In sum, the Internet appears to play a pivotal role in the lives of health anxious individuals.

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The Role of Health Anxiety in Online Health Information Search

Baumgartner

Hartmann

2011

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

217

177

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“…Health information seekers are defined as people who search for information on health topics [ 35 ]. For example, if individuals perceive themselves as obese, they will need information to manage the situation, while that information would simultaneously reassure healthy individuals [ 36 ]. Internet users may search for general health information; however, the need for online health information seeking is greater among individuals who perceive their health condition to be severe [ 37 ].…”

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Introducing an Integrated Model of Adults’ Wearable Activity Tracker Use and Obesity Information–Seeking Behaviors From a National Quota Sample Survey

Hong¹,

Kim²

2021

JMIR Form Res

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Background Research from multiple perspectives to investigate adults’ use of wearable activity-tracking devices is limited. We offer a multiperspective model and provide empirical evidence of what leads to frequent usage of wearable health technologies from a large, nationally representative survey sample. Objective This study aims to explore factors affecting the use of wearable activity-tracking devices among health consumers from the perspectives of individual health beliefs (perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, and self-efficacy) and information-seeking behaviors. Methods Our Integrated Model of Wearable Activity Tracker (IMWAT) use and proposed hypotheses were validated and tested with data collected from a telephone survey with a national quota sample. The data were analyzed using a variety of statistical techniques, including structural equation analysis. Results The sample comprised 2006 participants. Our results showed that the perceived benefits of physical activity, perceived susceptibility, and self-efficacy toward obesity were significant predictors of information-seeking behaviors, which, in turn, mediated their effects on the use of wearable activity trackers. Perceptions of obesity severity directly promoted wearable device usage. Conclusions This study provided a new and powerful theoretical model that combined the health beliefs and information-seeking behaviors behind the use of wearable activity trackers in the adult population. The findings provide meaningful implications for developers and designers of wearable health technology products and will assist health informatics practitioners and obesity prevention communicators.

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“…Empirical evidence for the importance of symptom attributions for hypochondriacal fears is strong (see, for example, Bailer et al, 2013; Barsky et al, 2001; Barsky, Coeytaux, Sarnie and Cleary, 1993; Fergus, 2014; Hadjistavropoulos, 1998; Haenen, Jong, Schmidt, Stevens and Visser, 2000; Haenen, Schmidt, Schoenmakers and van den Hout, 1998; Hitchcock and Mathews, 1992; MacLeod, Haynes and Sensky, 1998; Marcus, 1999; Marcus and Church, 2003; Rief, Hiller and Margraf, 1998; Schmidt, Witthöft, Kornadt, Rist and Bailer, 2013; Weck and Höfling, 2015, Weck, Neng, Richtberg and Stangier, 2012a, 2012b). Assessment of symptom attributions, however, can be conducted by using various approaches.…”

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confidence: 99%