Reliability and validity study of the Turkish version of cyberchondria severity scale

Uzun, Süleyman Utku; Zencir, Mehmet

doi:10.1007/s12144-018-0001-x

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“…Second-order confirmatory factor analysis was performed. As suggested by Uzun and Zencir (2018), the model fit indices showed similar results to the first-order confirmatory factor analysis: Intercorrelations and reliability statistics.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…Additionally, a series of studies have indicated that the CSS supports the psychometric properties of validity and reliability, based on adult samples obtained in Turkey, Germany and America (Uzun & Zencir, 2018;Barke, Bleichhardt, Rief, & Doering, 2016;Fergus, 2014). Overall, this work supports the usefulness of the CSS as a reliable and valid instrument for assessing cyberchondria in adolescents and adults.…”

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confidence: 68%

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Research and Evaluation of a Cyberchondria Severity Scale in a Chinese Context

Shao

Zhang

et al. 2020

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Background: Cyberchondria is the unfounded anxiety that results when people look up their medical conditions online and mistakenly diagnose themselves with serious illnesses. Such internet-derived medical anxiety can manifest itself in different ways across cultures. This study explores the unique nature of cyberchondria in the context of Chinese culture, identifying the risk factors for the condition and the possible negative outcomes.Results: An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to highlight differences in the structure of the scale for Western and Chinese contexts. Through the process of the reliability and validity testing, a Chinese version of the Cyberchondria Severity Scale (C-CSS) was developed. Subsequent regression analysis indicated that three antecedents are effective predictors of cyberchondria, and that C-CSS is related to theoretically relevant outcomes.Conclusions: This study initially demonstrated the applicability of C-CSS to assess the severity of cyberchondria among Chinese undergraduates.

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Research and Evaluation of a Cyberchondria Severity Scale in a Chinese Context

Shao

Zhang

et al. 2020

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“…The CSS [3], developed in the UK, has been the most widely used instrument in cyberchondria research. It has been translated into several languages, but the psychometric properties have been published only for the German [5], Polish [13*] and two Turkish [14,15] versions of the CSS. The Croatian version only reported data on internal consistency [9] and the Iranian version only reported total CSS score correlations with other scales [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For one of the Turkish translations, a reliability figure in 66 participants over a 2-week period was 0.65 for the total CSS, while the corresponding figures for the CSS subscales ranged from 0.53 to 0.71 [14]. The reported test-retest reliability figures for the CSS subscales of the Polish version over a period of 3 months in 59 participants ranged from 0.58 to 0.76 [13*].…”

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The Assessment of Cyberchondria: Instruments for Assessing Problematic Online Health-Related Research

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Purpose of review: Cyberchondria is a problematic, i.e., distressing or anxiety-increasing pattern of online health information seeking. The development of psychometrically sound instruments for the assessment of cyberchondria is imperative for better understanding of this construct. The aim of the present article is to provide a systematic literature review of cyberchondria instruments.Recent findings: Although several measures of cyberchondria have been developed, the Cyberchondria Severity Scale (CSS) has been used most often. The CSS is based on a solid theoretical framework, with very good to excellent reliability and validity. It has been translated into several languages. Modifications of the original version of the CSS have been introduced to refine its conceptual foundation and improve its utility by making it shorter.Summary: Further improvement of the CSS may boost the quality of cyberchondria research. There remains a need to test the theoretical underpinnings of the CSS and consider alternative models of cyberchondria.

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Examining mothers' obsessive and compulsive behaviors regarding baby care, cyberchondria level and maternal burnout in the postpartum period: Path analysis

Tiryaki,

Menekşe,

Arsoy

et al. 2024

Intl J Gynecology & Obste

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ObjectiveTo examine the effects of postpartum women's obsessive and compulsive behaviors towards the care of their babies and maternal exhaustion levels on cyberchondria.MethodsThe study, designed as a cross‐sectional and correlation‐seeking study, included 275 mothers. Data were collected from Turkish mothers with maternal burnout scale (MBS), scale for obsessive and compulsive behavıors of mothers ın the postpartum perıod wıth regard to baby care and cyberchondria severity scale (CSS).ResultsA total of 41.8% of the mothers, whose average age was 28.49 ± 5.04, had their first birth, 62.5% of the mothers were feeding their babies with breast milk, and 65.8% had regular sleep. The total mean score of the scales was 24.76 ± 5.15 for T‐MBS, 81.19 ± 22.16 for CSS, and 16.11 ± 10.28 for the obsession scale. There was a statistically significant positive relationship between the maternal burnout and postpartum obsession scales and the cyberchondria severity scale.ConclusionIn the present study, mothers in the postpartum period did not show signs of burnout or obsessive‐compulsive behaviors in the care of their babies, and their cyberchondria severity scores were at a moderate level.

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Reliability and validity study of the Turkish version of cyberchondria severity scale

Cited by 37 publications

References 27 publications

Research and Evaluation of a Cyberchondria Severity Scale in a Chinese Context

Research and Evaluation of a Cyberchondria Severity Scale in a Chinese Context

The Assessment of Cyberchondria: Instruments for Assessing Problematic Online Health-Related Research

Examining mothers' obsessive and compulsive behaviors regarding baby care, cyberchondria level and maternal burnout in the postpartum period: Path analysis

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