Cyberchondria: Too Much Information for the Health Anxious Patient?
Cyberchondria: Too Much Information for the Health Anxious Patient?
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DOI：
10.1080/15398285.2013.833452
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
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0.8
通讯作者：
Loos, Amber
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作者：
Loos, Amber
网络软骨症是最近由媒体创造并普及的一个术语，随着消费者越来越依赖在线健康信息进行症状检查和自我诊断，它正受到医学界越来越多的关注。本专栏提供了这个术语的背景，讨论了健康焦虑在在线健康信息搜索中可以发挥的关键作用，并介绍了一些高质量的在线症状检查器，作为帮助缓解网络软骨症的一种方式。
Cyberchondria, a term which was recently coined and popularized by the media, is receiving more and more attention from the medical community as consumers become increasingly reliant on online health information for symptom checking and self-diagnosis. This column provides a background to the term, discusses the pivotal role which health anxiety can play in online health information seeking, and profiles a number of high-quality online symptom checkers as a way to help alleviate cyberchondria.